The Vogel Family stared in the cutlery business over 300 years ago when Adolf Vogel was granted water power rights on the Elbe River near Kreischa, Germany. With this grant a two-story stone building, pictured here in 1910, was erected and used to house the Vogel Family, Manufacture weapons and cutting implements. Leaving the Family Home in 1889 Kurt A. Vogel Sr. emigrated to California and established a cutlery sharpening and repair service. Following the loss of his shop in the Great Earthquake he moved to Chicago Illinois, where he reopened the business in 1907. Passing through consecutive generations, Vogal Brothers Corporation, holder of 3 activityy cutlery patents, is now headed by Don and Dave Vogel, the owners of Anvil Industries USA.