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Note: According to family lore, before he was married Herman worked for the railroad in Montana. He was bitten by a rattlesnake. An Indian woman took care of him and nursed him back to health. He owned a saloon in Melrose with his brother, William, and later had his own saloon in Brooten. Herman then farmed for a time near Padua, MN before moving to Ogema with his family in March, 1910. In 1904 the Soo Line railroad had laid its tracks through Ogema, Minnesota. In 1910 Herman and his family, along with several others from the area, took the train to Ogema to begin a new period in their lives. They arrived at night and moved into the hotel where they lived for several weeks until they found a house to rent. Apparently it was early in the year of 1910 when they moved to Ogema because they were enumerated at Ogema when the 1910 census was taken on May 7, 1910. About 1908 Alex McKenzie had started a general store in Ogema. Herman TeVogt bought this store in 1910 and operated it until 1914 when he sold it to Joseph Tembrock. Herman then sold flour and feed and was employed as a janitor at the Ogema school. According to the book "Ogema, Minnesota, 1907-1982" , which was published in 1982 for the town's Diamond Jubilee, the Rev. Aloysius Hermanutz, O.S.B. of White Earth began to say Mass at Ogema in 1909 above the McKenzie-TeVogt store. Also according to this book, on May 6, 1913 the village of Ogema appointed A.J. Bisson and H. TeVogt to select a dump ground for the village. Another paragraph from this same book reads "On August 3, 1909 the Ogema Council granted A.L. Fredenburg of Waubun a franchise of 10 years to erect and operate a telephone line. The switchboard was above TeVogt's store". In 1914 John Kraker, who in 1912 worked in the TeVogt's store, started his own business. His clerks were Leo TeVogt and Joe and Norbert Lorsung. The store had many full blooded Chippewa customers who couldn't speak English so the store employees had to learn enough of the language to be able to converse. There has been some confusion as to the birth date of Herman. This has come about because of the wording used in recording his baptism and birth date in the church registers. The entry in the baptismal records of Immaculate Conception Church, New Munich, concerning the baptism of Herman TeVogt, is written in Latin but is clearly legible. On November 28, 1980, the author had Julius Muggli, O.S.B., a teacher of Latin from St. John's University, translate the record. It reads "In the year 1866 on the 22nd day of April I baptized an infant who was born on the twenty ninth day of this month. He was the child of Anthony Vogt and Joanna Henrica Jacobi Tenfort and I gave him the name Herman. The godparents were Herman Terhar and Catherine Haas. By Ansgar Frauendorfer, O.S.B." The Latin for the date of birth is "undetricesema h.m.". Apparently Fr. Ansgar intended to write "the twenty ninth day of the 'previous' month" but because of a small error in the way he wrote it, he made it appear that the baptism occurred on the 22nd of April and the birth was on the 29th of April. Obituary of Herman TeVogt, Detroit Lakes Tribune, December 11, 194 " DEATH CLAIMS HERMAN TEVOGT - FORMER OGEMA BUSINESSMAN DIES WEDNESDAY - Herman TeVogt, onetime Ogema businessman, died at his home in Detroit Lakes yesterday morning at the age of 75. Ill for several years, Mr. TeVogt was confined to his bed for nearly a year previous to his death. Requiem mass for Mr. TeVogt is to be held Friday morning at 9 o'clock from the Holy Rosary Church. Interment will be made in the Catholic cemetery. Mr. TeVogt had lived in the county since 1910. He was born March 28, 1866, at New Munich, Minn., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony TeVogt. On July 25, 1899, he married Elizabeth Peters at Melrose, Minn. The couple operated a farm until coming to Ogema in 1910. Mr. TeVogt was in the general merchandise business at Ogema for several years. After quitting the store business there, he sold flour and feed and was employed as janitor at the Ogema school. In about 1924 the family moved to St. Benedict, Sask., Canada. Mr. and Mrs. TeVogt returned to Becker County and settled at Detroit Lakes in 1929. Surviving Mr. TeVogt are his wife and eight children: William, Milwaukee, Wis.; Leo, Balta, N.D.; Aloysius, Ogema; Mrs. Harold (Amanda) Billesberger, Mayview, Sask., Mrs. Ray (Blanche) Walz, Minneapolis; Tony, Detroit Lakes; Clem and Luverne, at home. "
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