Felix F. VOGEL

• Born: c.1820 Hesse, Germany

• Married:

• Died: 1870

Marriage Information:

Felix married Margaret SWENK. (Margaret was born about 1822 and died about 1895 if, according to the above account, she lived to be 73)

General Notes:

Felix was born in Germany about 1820. There he grew to manhood. He emigrated to America, and from New York City, where he had landed, removed to Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and thence to Reading. Felix was engaged in the contracting business for the Philadelphia & Reading Company, a sawmill, sawing wood for fuel for the engines. Mr. Vogel died at the age of fifty years (about 1870). His wife lived until seventy-three. Both were interred in Reading. Their children were: William, Mary (wife of Francis Hauser), John, Joseph, Charles, Adam, Annie, and Francis F.