The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 586

LEVIN H. CLOGG.

Levin H. Clogg is a capitalist of Yakima whose faith in the city is manifest by
large investments. His first visit to Yakima convinced him of its opportunities
and since that time he has been an active factor in promoting interests of value
to the community. He was born in Maryland in 1848, a son of William H. and Marv
M. Clogg. The father was a merchant, devoting his life to that pursuit, but both
he and his wife have passed away. The son acquired a public school education and
in early manhood learned the business of manufacturing umbrellas. He left his
Maryland home at the age of fifteen years and went to Philadelphia, where he was
with the firm of William A. Drown & Company for fifteen years, starting at a
salary of ten dollars per week, and when he left the company he was earning
eight thousand dollars per year-a fact indicative of his developed powers and
adaptability. In 1884 he established a factory under the style of Follmer, Clogg
& Company in New York and also in Philadelphia, and the business is still
continued. They are engaged in the manufacture of umbrellas and silks and the
enterprise has developed into the largest of the kind in the world. Back of this
has been close application, sound judgment and unfaltering enterprise on the
part of Mr. Clogg and his business associates. They have built up a wonderful
organization in which maximum results are attained at a minimum expenditure of
time, labor and material, which is the secret of all commercial success. In 1905
Mr. Clogg, after contributing in large measure to the prosperity of the
undertaking which he had founded, sold his interest in the business and retired.
He had spent considerable time in southern California and in 1900 he came to
Yakima. He had made a trip to the west to visit customers and while in Spokane
heard of Yakima. His interest was aroused and he made a trip to the city. With
notable sagacity and foresight he recognized something of what the future had in
store for this great and growing section of the country, invested in land and
erected the Clogg building, which was the first large building of Yakima. It was
situated at the end of the town at that time. There was only seventy-five feet
of pavements and sidewalk in the town at that date, but Mr. Clogg recognized the
possibilities, purchased land and erected a two-story brick building one hundred
by one hundred and thirty feet. He visited the town often in the next few years
but did not become a permanent resident of Yakima until about 1913.

In 1869 Mr. Clogg was married to Miss Annie Dobson and to them was born a
daughter, Gertrude, now the wife of Dr. C. A. Vesey, of Spokane. Mrs. Clogg
passed away in 1874 and in 1875 Mr. Clogg wedded Mary A. Cooper. Their children
are: Ethel, thirty-five years of age, the wife of Robert Thomas, of California;
Edward M., a resident of San Francisco; and two who died in infancy.

In politics Mr. Clogg has always been a stalwart republican, giving unfaltering
support to the party and its principles. He is a member of the Commercial Club
of Yakima, also of the Country Club and of the Merchants Club of New York. He
was the first man to really have strong faith in the city and put in as much as
forty thousand dollars as a permanent investment on his initial trip. Since then
he has done much to further the upbuilding and improvement of Yakima and is most
enthusiastic concerning the valley, its opportunities and its possibilities. He
now spends considerable time in traveling for pleasure but makes Yakima his home
and much of the year is passed in the city.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.