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The Vogt/ Werner Family Plot
Jennifer Leung Religion 167 Professor Homerin Project #2- Mount Hope Epithets
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Across the way from “Our Willie over in the Summerland”, there rests a stone
that is neither fancy nor eye-catching, yet this stone caught my eye. Mainly because I
thought one of the symbols on the stone was the tail of a dragon, which I thought would
be uncommon in Mt. Hope. However as I venture closer I could see that what I was
looking at wasn’t the tail of a dragon but a carved wreath on top of two palm fronds that
were intersecting at one end. I looked at the stone more closely. There were no symbols
or other interesting epitaphs aside from the leaves and the wreath. On the sides of the
stone were two engraved intact columns with a Corinthian top. The back of the stone is
plain.
Front View of the Monument Closer view of the front
Left Side Right Side
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Back of the Monument Iconography on the stone
On the front the inscription is as follows:
Albrecht Vogt Edward Werner
1844-1918 1824-1906
Emilie Vogt Pauline Werner
nee Werner nee Schneider
1853-1926 1829-1900
Underneath this inscription are the fronds and wreath
and underneath that are the names “Vogt” and
“Werner” embossed on the left and right side
respectively.
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This large stone is but one stone in a plot of 11 (which includes the family
monument). Next to this monument are three smaller stones that are white in color and
look as if they were made from marble because of their deteriorated state. The other
seven stones are in a row in front of the monument and are made of the same material as
the monument; some kind of dark gray stone, perhaps granite since all these stones are in
really good shape. From left to right the inscriptions on the stones are as follows:
1. Walter P. Vogt
1891-1900
(the name “Walter” is embossed across the top of the stone, only three stones in this plot
are like that)
2. Emilie Vogt
December 13, 1853
April 22, 1926
3. Albrecht Vogt
October 21, 1844
August 17, 1918
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4. Albert E. Vogt
May 26, 1878
August 29, 1947
5. Kathryn S. Vogt
February 7, 1881
January 15, 1971
6. The word “Mother” embossed across the top
7. The word “Father” embossed across the top
The three small stones next to the family monument (from left to right) are:
1. Albert Edward
????
????
2. Emilie Vogt
Died
May 2? 1880
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3. Albrecht Vogt
June 30 1876
Died
Aged 6???
That is all that is on these stones. No symbols, no epitaphs referring to the Bible, nothing
like that.
I obtained a copy of the plot chart from the Mt. Hope office, which showed
exactly what I saw in the plot. Everything was where it was and there were no strange
unmarked graves. A note on the plot chart said: “See court order on file permitting
Kathryn Shedd Vogt to be interred upon lot. 9-8-47”. I was told that this was probably a
civil case where Kathryn Shedd Vogt the wife of Albert E. Vogt was petitioning to be
allowed to be buried with her husband because she wasn’t a Vogt or Werner by blood.
The other information about this plot I was able to obtain from Mt. Hope’s office was the
purchaser of this plot. It turns out that this plot was brought by Edward Werner, and not
Albrecht Vogt, whom I had originally thought bought the plot. Edward Werner had
purchased this plot on October 10, 1877. The plot is the southeast corner of 214 in section
C. the area he bought measured 225 sq ft and was purchased for $112.50. Three years
later on December 27, 1900 Werner brought another 75 sq ft adjacent to the original plot
to be added. This added section was known as 214 ½. Werner paid $37.50 for the plot.
According to the death dates, the infant Emilie Vogt was the first person to be buried in
this plot, yet Albrecht A. Vogt had died in 1876, thus his body must have been moved or
is just not in the plot. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find any information regarding the
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stone; such as who made it and when it was erected. There wasn’t much more
information I could gather on the stones and I now turned my attention to its residents.
So who is buried under these stones and what is their story? Who are they?
The first stone that I uncovered (not literally) was that of Walter P. Vogt who is
also known as Paul W. Vogt in the Mt. Hope interment records and in the newspaper
index in the Rundel library. Walter P. Vogt was nine years and five months old when he
died from typhoid fever. He was the son of Albrecht and Emilie Vogt. The obituary
stated that Walter had died on December 18, 1900 in the family residence at 250 East
Ave. His funeral was held in the house on December 21 and he was buried in Mt. Hope
that same day. Walter’s stone had his name embossed across the top and the reason I give
to this was because Walter was the Vogt’s first child to have lived past infancy and then
die. Perhaps this added ornamentation was their way of showing their love for him, much
like the desire of Willie in the Summerland’s parents to draw the attention to their son’s
stone.
Buried next to Walter is his mother, Emilie Vogt, the wife of Albrecht Vogt and
the daughter of Edward and Pauline Werner. Emilie Vogt died from endocarditis at the
age of 72 years, 4 months and 9 days. She also died in her home though by then the
family had moved to 347 Seneca Parkway. She died on April 22, 1926 and was buried on
April 24. The obituary listed that three daughters; Mrs. Edward G. Pfahl, Mrs. Arthur G.
Dutcher, Mrs. Raymond A. Lander and one son, Albert E. Vogt, survived her.
The next person in the plot was the main focus of my research mainly because
there was a lot of information written about him. He was Albrecht Vogt, the founder and
president of Vogt Manufacturing and Coach Lace Company. Whereas the other members
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of his family (with the exception of his son) only had a paragraph for their obituary, Vogt
had a whole article written about him. The title of the article was “Death of Albrecht
Vogt, Prominent Manufacturer”. The article went on to list Vogt’s work and his
accomplishments, which were many. Vogt was truly a self-made man.
Albrecht Vogt was born on October 21, 1844 in Baden in southwest Germany. He
graduated from a polytechnic university in 1859 and left Germany in 1868. He arrived in
New York City. I was able to find a record of his arrival into the USA from Rundel
Library. This record listed the name of the ship he came on, the town he left, his
destination and other information that convinced me it was the same Albrecht Vogt. The
name of the ship that Vogt was on was called the “Bremen” and it was departing Bremen
heading to New York arriving on April 14, 1868. Vogt’s age was listed as 23, his sex;
male and his occupation; merchant. The province and village he was from was listed as
unknown. The destination was USA. Vogt spent several years in NYC before he moved
to Rochester. It was in NYC that he learned his skills for business and was a salesman in
various businesses, specializing in trimmings. Vogt married Emilie Werner in 1873 in
NYC and moved to Rochester in 1874 with her. This was also the year that their first
child Pauline Emily Vogt was born.
In Rochester, Vogt teamed up with Frederick Haiges and together they were
Haiges and Vogt making trimmings for women’s dresses from a small factory in 44
Exchange Street. This partnership was dissolved in 1876 and Vogt continued alone until
1880. Vogt bought 332 and 334 St. Paul Street and erected his business there in 1879. He
officially moved there on February 1 of 1880. Vogt’s company was incorporated in 1884.
In 1887 the Rochester Coach Lace Company was added and in 1891 both were
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consolidated and incorporated as one under the name of Vogt Manufacturing and Coach
Lace Company with a capital of $135,000. Albrecht Vogt was the president and general
manager of his company. Not only did Vogt build a successful business enterprise that
lasted well into the 1980s in Rochester, but he was also very much involved in several
other companies that were in Rochester at that time.
Vogt was one of the originators and the director of the German American Bank
and the Standard Sewer Pipe Company. He was organizer and director of the Rochester
Title Insurance Company and one of the incorporators and president of the Rock Asphalt
Company. Vogt was also director of the Rochester German Insurance Company and was
incorporator, secretary and treasurer of the Genesee Brewing Company. He was one of
the originators of the Edison Illuminating Company and its vice president until the
company’s consolidation. Not only was Vogt very active in the business community of
Rochester, he was also very active in its social aspect as evident from all his
memberships. Vogt was a member of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, the
Germania Lodge, the Frank Lawrence Lodge, F&AM, the Rochester Club and the
Genesee Valley Club. He was also a member of the Third Presbyterian Church and was a
republican. He enjoyed music immensely and was a great patron of Rochester’s musical
community. He had seven kids with Emilie; Pauline, Albert, Hertha, Elsa, and Walter,
Emilie, and Albrecht. Only four lived to adulthood.
Vogt died on August 17, 1918 at his summer home near Eastman Park. He was 73
years old and had died from heart disease. The obituary stated that he had been in poor
health for three years and had suffered from a general breakdown. From all that Albrecht
Vogt did in life it is easy to see why there are intact columns on his family monument
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that signify a noble life. From the article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Vogt
was obviously an important member of the community and he and his family was greatly
respected. In fact, his daughters all married into other prominent families.
Buried next to Vogt is the only son of Albrecht and Emilie Vogt; Albert Edward
Vogt. From the information I found on Albert Vogt it was apparent that he followed his
father’s footsteps and was in many respects, very much like him. Albert E. Vogt took
over Vogt Manufacturing after his father’s death and like Albrecht Vogt; Albert Vogt
was also very active in the business and social life of Rochester. The younger Vogt was
the chairman of the Board of Directors of Central Trust Company and chairman of the
Board of Managers of the Convalescent Hospital for Children. He was also the president
of three subsidiary companies of Vogt Manufacturing. Albert Vogt started working for
his father in his teens. He attended the Rochester Free Academy, the Philadelphia Textile
School and the Rochester Business Institute. Vogt Jr. was very active in many business
and industrial associations among them the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, the
National Association of Manufacturers and the Rochester Industrial Management
Council. Vogt Jr. was an avid yachtsman and was a member of the Rochester yacht club,
the Genesee Valley Club, the Rochester Club, the Frank R. Lawrence Lodge, F&AM and
a member of the first Baptist Church. He was also director of the Rochester Community
Chest. Albert Vogt died at his home 8 Highland Heights on August 29, 1947. His wife,
Kathryn S. Vogt, three sisters and several nieces and nephews survived him. Vogt died at
age of 69 years, 3 months and 3 days from coronary sclerosis.
Kathryn Shedd Vogt is the next person in the plot. She is buried next to her
husband although as I have stated earlier, there might have been some problems
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involving her interment in the plot. Kathryn Vogt was also the most recent death in this
family. Kathryn died at 89 years from heart disease at the home that she shared with
Albert Vogt (8 Highland Heights). She died on 1/15/1971 and was interred the day after.
Her obituary didn’t offer much on her life, in fact even in death her husband still
shadowed over her. For instance, the title of one of the obituaries I found on her was
“Kathryn Vogt, Executive’s Widow”. Her husband had died nearly three decades ago and
yet she is still known as the widow of the late great Albert E. Vogt. What the obituary did
state was that she was a lifelong resident of Rochester and a member of many charity
organizations. Kathryn belonged to the 11th Twig, which was a group of volunteers at the
Rochester General Hospital. She was also a member of the Rochester Female Charitable
Club, the Genesee Valley Club, and the Century Club. She served on the board of
Hillside Children’s Home. Kathryn also belonged to the Country Club of Rochester and
was a member of the First Baptist Church. Several nieces and nephews survived her.
Kathryn and Albert never had any more kids after Albert E. Jr. Thus there are no direct
male heirs to Albrecht Vogt.
Next in the plot is Pauline Schneider Werner, the wife of Edward Werner and
mother of Emilie Werner Vogt. Not much is known about her, From the 1880 census, I
found out that she was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, a town that was not to far from
Baden and was in fact in the same region. Pauline Werner died on August 15, 1900 at her
home, which was 44 Gorham Street. All the obituary stated was that she was the wife of
Edward Werner and when and where her funeral services were held. Pauline Werner died
at the age of 71 years and 6 months from paralysis.
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Buried next to his wife is Edward Werner. He was the father of Emilie Werner
Vogt, and hence the father-in-law of Albrecht Vogt, and the husband of Pauline Werner. I
was also unable to find much information on Edward Werner. His obituary only stated
that died on August 4, 1906 at the age of 81 years and 7 months. He also died at home
(44 Gorham Street) and he died from arteriosclerosis. According to the obituary he leaves
one daughter, Mrs. Albrecht Vogt, four grandchildren (Walter had died six years earlier)
and one sister. Like his wife, Edward was also born in Wurtermberg, Germany. Whether
he and Pauline married and then came to the US or married in the USA is unknown.
However, since Emile Werner Vogt was born in NYC, I concluded that he must have
came to the US sometime before 1854. When I searched through the immigrant record
books however I couldn’t pinpoint which Edward Werner was mine. Both Edward and
Pauline were buried in the section of the plot that was known as 214 ½.
The preceding paragraphs were all about the seven stones that were in front of the
monument, however as I have stated before, there is a total of ten makers in this plot and
the other three stones are the small, worn, white stones that sit to the left of the
monument. In order from left to right, these stones mark the graves of Albert E. Vogt Jr.,
Emilie Vogt, and Albrecht A. Vogt.
The stone of Albert Edward Vogt Jr. is close to illegible. The only way I was able
to be certain of the deceased’s identity was through the interment records of MT. Hope
that I had found at the Rundel Library. Those records stated that the deceased was,”
Albert Edward, infant son of Albert E. and Kathryn; 1913” Thus this stone marks the
grave of Albert E. and Kathryn’s only son who died at 28 days from congenital
endocarditis. If he had lived he would be the sole heir to Albrecht Vogt’s line. Albert Jr.
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died at the family house on Barrington Street and was interred on June 18, 1913. There
was no obituary found for Albert Jr.
Buried next to Albert Jr. is Albrecht A. Vogt who would have been Albert Jr’s
uncle. The stone is sufficiently legible and it says:
Albrecht Vogt
Died
June 30 1876
Aged 6 months
The interment records from Rundel library lists the deceased as Albrecht A. Vogt who
had died from cholera infant at the age of 6 months on June 30, 1876. The child had died
on N. Clinton Street. I had inferred that this child was the son of Albrecht and Emilie
Vogt based on date of births and marriages. He was the couple’s second son. Again no
obituary was found for Albrecht A. Vogt.
Buried next to Albrecht is Emilie Vogt who has the last stone in the plot and is the
grave closet to the family monument. Of all three stones the stone of Emilie Vogt was
the only one that was legible and its states:
Emilie Vogt
died
May 26 1880
anything else under the date is illegible. From the interment records I determined that
Emilie died from paralysis at 21 days at the family residence on Gorham Street. She was
buried on May 27, 1880. However I was not able to find anymore information on Emilie
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Vogt, and again I inferred from the date of birth from the other graves that she was the
infant child of Albrecht and Emilie Vogt; more specifically she was their third child.
Thus this was the family that was buried in the southeast corner of section C.
According to the 1880 New York State Census, the members of the family that were
living then were:
1. Albert (Albrecht) Vogt, the relationship was “self” and he was 33 years old. His
birthplace was listed as Baden and his occupation was a fringe manufacturer.
Both his parents were also born in Baden.
2. His wife, Emilia Vogt was 26 years old at the time and she was born in NY. Both
her parents were born in Wurtemberg. Her occupation was “Keeping House”.
3. Pauline E. Vogt was the daughter at age 6 then and she was also born in NY. Her
occupation was listed as “ At School”.
4. Albert E. Vogt was the two-year-old son who was also born in NY. His
occupation was “At Home”.
5. The fifth person living with Albrecht Vogt and his family was Edward Werner,
his father in law. He was 53 at the time and also listed as “At Home”.
6. Pauline Werner was still alive at the time and also lived with them. She was 52
and “At Home”.
7. The last person who was listed as living with the family was one Rose Zwierlein
who was born in Bavaria and was 19 at the time. She was listed as “Other” in her
relationship to Vogt and her occupation was “Servant”. Thus she must have been
the family’s housekeeper or maid or something to that extent.
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Thus that was the Vogt family in 1880 and although the census is usually correct I
already noticed one discrepancy. Albert E. Vogt according to all my research was
born in 1878, all the sources say that the family moved to Rochester in 1874.
Pauline’s date of her birth and her birthplace correspond correctly, yet Albert’s
doesn’t.
Now that we have some background information on the family, the symbols on
their family monument can thus be analyzed. In gravestone iconography the wreath has
often stood for victory. This could be taken to mean the family’s victories in all their
business endeavors. The palm fronds symbolize the triumph of a martyr over death and
are also known as a symbol of resolution overcoming calamity (The sexton’s Tales). The
Martyr in Christianity is obviously Christ and the palms on the stone could be the
family’s way of affirming their faith. Albrecht Vogt had belonged to the Third
Presbyterian Church while some members of his family belonged to the First Baptist
Church. Perhaps the palms could also mean that while the family was well off they were
not shielded from tragedy as they have lost several members of the family from untimely
deaths. The deaths could be the calamity that they are resolving. The intact columns on
the side of the monument mean a “noble life” which fits its residents very well.
I do not know which member of this family chose the monument or had it
commissioned. I looked all over the stone and I couldn’t find anything that indicated its
origin; no signature or mark denoting the carver nor the company it came from. The
monument was indicated on the plot chart, thus it already existed, and since it was
Edward Werner who bought the plot, it stands to reason that perhaps it was he who
bought this stone. If indeed it was Edward Werner then the names that he had inscribed
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on this stone makes perfect sense. Since this was to be a family plot, it is only right that
the heads of the family have their names commemorated on the family monument. The
inscription is very simple. All it lists are the names and years of birth and death. The
women have their maiden names listed after the word “nee”. This word is of French
origin means “born” and is usually used to indicate the name of birth of a married
woman. Thus “Emilie Vogt nee Werner” would mean “Emilie Vogt, born as Emilie
Werner”.
The information and the people that I discussed above were all who resided in
Plot 214. However through persistent digging I was able to uncover more information
about the family that lead to grandchildren and to the great grandchildren of Albrecht
Vogt.
Vogt had three daughters that were not buried with him; I imagine they are
probably buried with their husband and his family. There are Pauline Emily Vogt (Mrs.
Edward G. Pfahl), Hertha Vogt (Mrs. Arthur G. Dutcher) and Elsa Vogt (Mrs. Raymond
A. Lander). All three daughters lived to adulthood and all three had children. Pauline and
Edward had one son, Alvin E. Pfahl. Hertha and Arthur had two sons, Darrow A. and
David Jaynes (who had moved to Florida). I was able to find the offspring of Darrow A.
who are David, Hope and a Mrs. Daniel Bump (maiden name unknown). Elsa and
Raymond also had two children, Raymond A. Jr. and June Green who moved to Tucson.
AZ. As I’ve said before, all these descendants of Albrecht Vogt are from his daughters
and thus they do not bear his last name. I was only able to find bits and pieces of
information on certain family members and they are as listed:
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Pauline Emily Vogt Pfahl was born in 1874 and married Edward G. Pfahl at the
age of 21 years in 1895. Her husband Edward was a wholesale food distributor who had
died unexpectedly at the age of 69 on March 13, 1943 at his home, 202 Clay Ave.
As it was common practice within the upper crust of society, prominent families
usually married into other prominent families and all three of Albrecht Vogt’s daughters
did just that. Pauline married Edward Pfahl who was a wholesale food distributor and
proof of his high status in Rochester society comes from his obituary which lists the
number of memberships he holds to many different prominent organizations; among
them are: the fraternal club, the Elks, the Oddfellows, the Rochester Club, and the
Genesee Falls Lodge. Albrecht Vogt was also a member of the Rochester Club as was
Albert Vogt, Pfahl’s brother-in-law. However, the daughter that married into the most
prominent family I believe was Hertha Vogt who married Arthur G. Dutcher on June 2nd
1909. Dutcher was prominent enough to warrant a biography in the book The History of
Genesee County.
According to said book, Arthur Dutcher was “an able and successful
representative of the legal profession in Rochester during the past seventeen years…”
(Doty 844). Arthur Dutcher started up a law practice with his brother, the Honorable
Judge Frederick Dutcher and this practice has flourished over the years. A. Dutcher
received his higher education at the University of Rochester, graduating with a BA. He
married Hertha and had two sons with her, Darrow A. born in October 1911 and David
Jaynes born in March of 1915. Dutcher, like his father-in-law, was a republican and was
also a member of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce. He also belongs to the Church of
Ascension, is a director of the Rochester Humane Society and the Society for the
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Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Ad Club and the Oak Hill Country Club. He was a
member of the Masonic order, being past master of the Yonondio Lodge, No 163, F&AM
and a member of the Consistory and the Mystic Shrine (Doty 845). Hertha and Arthur’s
son Darrow also attained some degree of prominence being a member of the law firm his
father had started. According to his obituary he was a lawyer in Rochester for 35 years.
At the age of 60 he died from a heart attack. He was a member of the Genesee
Ornithological Society and a former chairman of the Visiting Nurses Service. Darrow
was a former president of the Rochester Junior Chamber of Commerce and was chief
enforcement attorney for the Rochester Office of Price Administration during WWII. His
wife, a son, two daughters and his brother David survived him.
The husband of Albrecht Vogt’s third daughter Elsa by the time of his death was
also quite well-known in Rochester. Elsa Vogt married Raymond A. Lander in 1917.
They had two children; Raymond A. Lander Jr. and June Green of Tucson, AZ. Lander
was 78 when he died unexpectedly on June 8, 1955. Lander had collapsed while doing
some shopping and was pronounced dead at Genesee Hospital. The Medical examiner
stated that Lander had been under treatment for a heart condition for some time. Lander
was the chairman of the board of Vogt Manufacturing Corp. the company his father-in-
law had founded and that of which he had served as president for a period. At the time of
his death, his son Lander Jr. was the president of Vogt. Lander (Sr.) was born in
Rochester and attended both the University of Rochester and Cornell University. After
graduation in 1912 he worked for five years for the Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. and
the Consumer’s Power Co. He joined the Vogt Company in 1919 as secretary. In 1927 he
became the vice-president of the firm and in 1947 he became president. Ten years later he
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was elected chairman of the board. Lander was a director of Central Trust Co. and several
other firms. He was also a member of the Third Presbyterian Church, the Genesee Valley
Club, the Country Club of Rochester, Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and was very active in
the civic affairs of the city. His funeral was held at the church of which he was a member
and there was notice that friends who wanted to could make a contribution to the
church’s memorial fund in his memory. Another article in the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle stated some of his will. According to this article, Lander had given $2,000 each
to the Cornell Club of Rochester and to the Third Presbyterian Church. After several
gifts, there still remained $300,000 of his estate, which went to his son Lander Jr. and
daughter June. Lander Jr. also inherited Lander’s home and the housekeeper of Lander
Sr. was given $2,400. The gift that was to the Third Presbyterian Church was made in the
memory of his late wife, Elsa A. Vogt Lander.
That was all the information I was able to find on the descendants of Albrecht
Vogt at this time. I had also done some research on his company, Vogt Manufacturing
and Coach Lace Company, which is now Voplex Corporation, located in Michigan since
the company moved from its Rochester headquarters in Pittsford. From my research I had
found that Vogt was one of the larger companies in the division of automotive support
industry. The company supplied specialized body materials to the industry. Vogt started
out making the woven fringes that were popular on women’s dresses. The company later
expanded their line of merchandise to upholstery trimming, and then to the broad laces
used to trim horse carriages. Vogt was a large supplier to the James Cunningham, Son
and Company an automobile manufacturer as well as to other Rochester carriage makers.
The company concentrated on all types of cloth interior trims materials. In the late 1920’s
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the company yet again expanded merchandise to be able to supply automobile cloth and
concealed nail bindings. The company’s mode of expansion was to acquire small,
advanced-technology, manufacturing firms. When the demand of interior automobile
components shifted from textiles to plastics so did the company's products thus helping
Vogt keep its role as a supplier to automobile manufacturers. The name of the company
was changed to "Voplex" in the 1970s; Voplex was a combination of "Vogt" and
"plastics". In the 1980s the company packed up and left Rochester for Detroit Michigan.
The Vogt/Werner plot is neither big nor elaborate or even beautiful but from my
research one can tell the incredible impact each member had on the city of Rochester in
those early days. Albrecht Vogt had helped shape the city's industrial and civic life with
his contributions and all his descendants have followed in his footsteps and added their
own little part. The city of Rochester may have survived if the Vogts didn't live here but
it certainly wouldn’t have been the same. And my paper instead of being the 15+ page
affair that it is now, would only have been 2 pages long with a description of the stones.
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