Francis Casimir Vogel was born in Germany in 1850. He spent his entire life in a quest of adventure, which never ceased. In 1871, he left Germany to live in a large ranch located in the Province Santa Fe in Argentina and then in Fort Sauce-Corto, garrisoned by criminals and about two hundred foreigners who had been lured into service. He soon became a private secretary to Colonel Spika and also took up farming, as he was the only man in the command to understood it. His crop in 1873 was valued at seventy five thousand dollars.From 1875 to 1878 young Vogel was involved in the wool buying business. In 1878, he sailed for America and reached San Antonio, Texas, in April 1879. In 1884, he obtained a contract with the government to operate a stage line in the province of Georgia, Russia and spent five years there. In December 1887, he married Anne Frankel of San Antonio. The couple had five children. After coming back to the U.S. he went back to the wool commission business and then managed a rubber factory for Otto Koehler, the first rubber manufacturing plant in the United States. He died on January 13, 1920. He was seventy years old.