Daniel A. Vogt was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1856 until 1861 and was an outspoken advocate for secession before the American Civil War. He took in his nephews after the American Civil War.
One of the nephews he took in, Albertus Vogt, helped establish the phosphate driven land boom in Ocala.
Daniel Vogt's great great nephew John Vogt served as the President of the Florida Senate.
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- Schwartz, Kathryn Carlisle (2003). Baptist Faith in Action: The Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781570034978.
- "Discovery of Phosphate in Florida". Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute. Archived from the original on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
the Florida phosphate boom of the late 1800s was triggered after the 1889 discovery of high-grade phosphate hard rock by Albertus Vogt near the new town of Dunnellon in Marion County. Mr. Vogt had noticed fossil remains of prehistoric animals in a nearby spring that reminded him of similar finds near phosphate deposits from years earlier when his family had lived in South Carolina, where phosphate was first found in the United States.
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