Henry Vogt [SEP] position held
Henry Vogt
Henry Vogt (May 5, 1853 – October 21, 1934) was a Prussian-born American cigar maker and policeman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served one term as a People's Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Background.
He was born Heinrich Vogt in 1853 to Christopher Vogt and Anna Maria Tolle. Vogt received a common school education in Prussia. He emigrated, settled in Milwaukee in 1874 and became a cigar maker. Vogt was a police officer in Milwaukee in 1882-83.
makes it difficult to determine exactly which family held lands, but Ulrich clearly had land in the Hinterrhein valley and a position as vogt at Schänis Abbey. His son, Arnold, was appointed a vogt in 976 over the two largest monasteries in Zurich, the Grossmünster and Fraumünster, and their lands in Uri.
When Ulrich II supported Emperor Henry IV during the Investiture Controversy he was granted the Zürichgau or lands around Zürich. His brother Arnold I, became Count of the Frickgau in 1064 and vogt over Säckingen Abbey in 1073