Foreword

This Vogel Family history traces the ancestors of my parents, Robert E Vogel and Jacquelyn Pilot Vogel, who were married at Mansfield, Ohio in December 1950. This photo is from 1952 when I was about 1 year old.

Dad's family is ethnic Germans who were part of the Austria-Hungary Monarchy when they came to Mansfield about a hundred years ago. Mom descends from French-Canadians who immigrated to Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1890's. Mom's parents moved to Mansfield when she was a child. They both belonged to St Peter's Catholic Church and attended the parochial school there.

Dad was finishing his degree at Case (now Case Western Reserve) in Cleveland when they were married. He graduated and went to work for Ohio Edison as an electrical engineer in Lorain, Ohio. I was born the following fall.