Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 2.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 188.
 
OCTAV VOGET

     The old world has furnished to the United States many valuable citizens and
among those who have profited by the countless opportunities offered in the
Pacific northwest is numbered Octav Voget. He is one of the progressive dairymen
of Oregon and operates a model farm on section two, township five, near Hubbard,
Marion county. He is a native of Germany and of French Huguenot descent. He is a
son of Gustav and Anna (Ledeboer) Voget, the latter a Hanoverian. His father was
born in Holland in 1844 and when a young man came to the new world. He has made
several trips to the United States. He has many children in this country but
maintains his home in Germany. His family numbers thirteen children, six sons
and seven daughters. Nine of the children have sought homes in America and four
sons and three daughters are residing in the Willamette valley.
 
     Octav Voget came to the United States in 1900 and first located in Colorado
Springs, Colorado. He journeyed to Oregon in 1901 and attended the public
schools of Salem. He was graduated from the normal department of Philomath
College near Corvallis and for several terms engaged in teaching in Tillamook
and Benton counties, Oregon. Mr. Voget has been identified with the dairy
business for twenty years and knows every phase of the industry. In 1913 he
built the Hubbard creamery, of which he was manager for ten years, and in 1922
his brother, Garfield Voget, acquired an interest in the business.
 
     Foshay Farm was incorporated in 1927 and Octav Voget was elected president
and manager. His brother Garfield discharges the duties of vice president and
Mary L. Voget is serving as secretary and treasurer. It is a close corporation
and these officers are the only directors and stockholders. Octav Voget started
the business in 1917 with six cows and now has a herd of seventy. He milks
fifty-five cows and specializes in high-grade Guernseys. Each cow produces
eleven quarts per day and Mr. Voget also buys four hundred quarts of milk and
cream daily from farmers. The product is bottled on the farm under perfect
sanitary conditions and sold in Portland to customers who are satisfied with
only the finest milk and cream. The dairy is a model of cleanliness and supplied
with the most improved equipment. Mr. Voget purchased nine thousand dollars
worth of milk in 1927 and his sales amounted to twenty-nine thousand dollars. He
has two silos, each with a capacity of one hundred tons, and the farm comprises
one hundred and thirty-five acres, of which one hundred are under cultivation.
He has twenty-eight acres in alfalfa and also raises hay but buys grain. The
farm is efficiently operated and reflects the administrative power and high
standards of its executive head. The Hubbard Creamery Company, in which Octav
and Garfield Voget are stockholders, makes only high-grade butter. The firm
ships its product as far south as Los Angeles, California, and in 1926 supplied
the market with two hundred and sixty thousand pounds of butter.
 
     In Tillamook, Oregon, August 8, 1906, Octav Voget was married to Miss Mary
L. Phillips, of Forest Grove, this state. She is a daughter of Stanley H. and
Emma L. (Spencer) Phillips and a descendant of Wendell Phillips, a noted
American orator and abolitionist, and Herbert Spencer, an Englishman, who
achieved distinction as an author and philosopher. The Spencers came to America
in 1835 and in 1852 journeyed to California. They were among the pioneer
settlers of San Francisco and John D. Spencer was a member of the vigilance
committee of that city. Mrs. Voget's aunt and uncles crossed the plains in a
covered wagon and experienced all of the hardships and dangers of frontier life.
Mr. and Mrs. Voget have become the parents of five children: Eva C., who is the
wife of George Emmert and the mother of one child, Kenneth Roy; Taletta R., a
student; and Helen L, Octavia Louise and Esther E.
 

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2016 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.