Like father, like son

Fellow botanists have a lot in common
By Tim Johnson, Free Press Staff Writer • June 21, 2009

Photo: Tom Vogelmann of Jericho holds a 1954 photo him and his father, Hub, on Tom’s second birthday

JERICHO — This is a story about the family Vogelmann, father and son. They’re next-door neighbors.

Hub, the father, grew up in a city, married, had three sons, moved here to the country, and tried his hand at raising beef cattle — grass-fed, back before that was fashionable.

Tom, the eldest, proved adept at haying. He was a bit of a handful, into everything, but he was good at tossing bales into the barn.

Hub had a day job, and he used to joke that’s what made it possible for him to lose money on the cattle. Tom helped out but “he always had a mind of his own — it was ‘get out of my way,’” Hub recalled the other day.Tom smiled knowingly. They were sitting on Tom’s porch in the late afternoon sun, reminiscing.

Hub’s day job was professor of botany at the University of Vermont. He was there 36 years, retiring in 1991.

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