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Guide to the Louis Fenn Vogt Papers and Photographs 1921-1952
Metadata Details
- Title
- Louis Fenn Vogt papers and photographs 1921-1952
- Subject
- Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Vogt Family, Standard Chemical Company., Radium industry--Pennsylvania--Canonsburg
- Description
- The Louis Fenn Vogt papers and photographs includes manuscripts, pamphlets, documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, a genealogical report of the Vogt family. The manuscripts and pamphlets are associated with articles written by Vogt and talks given by him in person or via KDKA radio. Most photographs in the collection capture Marie Curie during her visit to the Canonsburg Standard Chemical Company alongside Vogt and company president James C. Gray. Also included is a signed copy of the book Madame Curie written by Eve Curie, Louis Fenn Vogt papers and photographs, 1921-1952, MSS 861, Thomas Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Peter Vogt Gift 2011 2011.0139, Louis Fenn Vogt was born on January 31, 1881 in Akron, Ohio, to William H. and Metta (Fenn) Vogt. He was a descendant of Robert Treat, an early 17th century American colonial leader and governor of Connecticut. He was married to Lois Johnston Vogt with whom he had three offspring: Louis Fenn Vogt Jr., Richard J. Vogt and Kathleen Vogt Copson. After graduating from Case Applied Science in 1901, Vogt became the works manager of Standard Chemical Company of Pittsburgh in charge of the extraction works at Canonsburg, Pa. He was an expert in radioactive materials and was the first to work out a process for extracting radium from Carnotite, an ore found in Colorado. Vogt also pioneered the commercial production of radium in the U.S., holding patents covering its extraction from Carnotite. Throughout his life he gave talks and wrote various articles pertaining to the production, history, and significance of radioactive elements. Through his expertise he became acquainted with Marie Curie, who visited Standard Chemical Co. in May of 1921. In addition to his work with Standard Chemical Company, Vogt was the works manager of the American Cyanamid Co. and worked as an industrial consultant associated with the Radium Dial of Pittsburgh and New York, the American Salpa Corp., and the David T. Houston Company. During World War II, Vogt served as chief of production service of the War Production Board in Newark, NJ. Louis Fenn Vogt died of a heart attack, on August 31, 1952, at a hospital in Plainfield, N.J. located near his Westfield, N.J. home., Gift of Petr Vogt., Processed MSS 0861 10/2012 M. Stayton, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Vogt, Louis Fenn., Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1921-1952
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, 0.5 linear ft.
- Identifier
- oclc:818209484, pitt:US-QQS-mss861
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss861
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Canonsburg
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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