Daniel A. Vogt was a member of the

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from 1856 until 1861
and was an outspoken advocate for secession before the

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. He took in his nephews after the American Civil War. One of the nephews he took in, Albertus Vogt, helped establish the

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driven land boom in Ocala. Daniel Vogt's great great nephew

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served as the President of the Florida Senate.

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