Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

CHARLES E. VOGAN

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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A far-seeing, progressive and exceptionally enterprising rancher is Charles E. 
Vogan, whose success is undoubtedly due to his self-denial practiced in the 
beginning, while getting a start, and to untiring diligence and careful 
administration of his affairs ever since.  He was born on October 14, 1866, at 
Steubenville, Ohio, a son of John W. and Anna Elizabeth (Watson) Vogan, natives 
of Ohio.  When he was a mere baby, his father died; but the mother lived to be 
sixty-five years of age, passing away at Greeley, Colo.  Charles E. Vogan has 
three brothers: Harry, John and Clarence; but he is the only one of his family 
residing in California.
In 1871, Charles E. Vogan went to Greeley, Colo., with his mother and uncle, and 
there he attended school.  After working for some time on a ranch, he purchased 
land in Colorado; but later he sold out and went to Boise, Idaho, where he was 
engaged on the Minidoka project on the Snake River, and stayed there from 1906 
to the fall of 1912, when he came to Sutter County and purchased forty acres 
five miles northwest of Yuba City.  In 1912 this land was a stubble-field, but 
it has since been developed into a profitably producing ranch, yielding grapes, 
peaches, prunes and cherries, and irrigated by a three-inch and a 
two-and-one-half-inch pump.
On June 2, 1910, at Twin Falls, Idaho, Charles E. Vogan was married to Miss 
Georgiana Rhodes, a native of Missouri, and a daughter of William and Lydia 
(Hogan) Rhodes.  The father was born in the North, while the mother was born in 
the South, in the famed Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.  Their marriage was a 
strange union of the North and the South, at a time when the political 
differences between the two sections were at their greatest.  William Rhodes, 
who came to California for his health, passed away in Kern County.  After his 
death, Mrs. Rhodes returned to Montana; she passed away in 1921, at Butte, 
Mont., when she was sixty-one years old.  Mrs. Vogan has one sister, Wilhemina.  
Her parents went to Montana in the seventies before the building of the steam 
railroad lines, but returned to Missouri, where Mrs. Vogan was born.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Vogan have become the parents of three children: John, Walter, and Claire 
Elizabeth.  Politically, Mr. Vogan maintains a non-partisan attitude, casting 
his ballot in favor of the candidate whom he deems best fitted for office, 
regardless of party ties.  He is a member of the Woodmen of the World, at 
Ordway, Colo., and of the Knights of Pythias, at Yuba City.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 684