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He got a Job at Judge Noonan's Ranch, in Medina County, remaining
there a short time, and later worked as a sheep herder
for George Dougherty. Soon his health began to improve and
with the twelve hundred dollar backing from his father he was
determined to own his own ranch. He invested this in three
hundred sheep and established a: small ranclon Todos Santos
greek, in Frio County, in 1875, remaining there until 1880.
Upon selling this interest, he went to Maverick County, where
he remained one year, following which he went to San Antonio,
entered the grain business, and went broke. He then went into
Mexico, where he entered the sheep business in a smal way,
-bwtr teri returned to Texas and went in partnership with D.A.
Crichton, in the sheep raising business in Presidio County,
ahey star i with twelve hundred sheep, and ranching on Alamito
Creek, 4fter a while Judge Boge took over all the flock
to ten thousand head) the largest in dividually owned flock
in that section. He sold his interests and resided npnew
ranch in 1901. Mr. W.W. Bogel married Miss Sarah Newton,
a daughter of C&l. and Mrs. S.C. Newton, on the fifteenth
of February, 1882 in San Antonio. They had seven children.
They e Jessie, widow of the late Harry J. Hubbard, who
had two children, Harry and Billy; A.J.4Bogel, ranchman of
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Belt, Becky. Life of the Bogel Family, paper, 1966; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth39986/m1/3/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Marfa Public Library.