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BERT JULIAN FOGLE, who is engaged in the wholesale drug business, as a member of the Rankin, Fogle, Francy Drug Company, at Muskogee, Oklahoma, is one of the representative men of the city. He was born at Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, February 6, 1864, and is a son of Evan Dent and Sarah S. (Sharon) Fogle. The father of Mr. Fogle was born at Morgantown, W. Va., and was reared on a farm. He later engaged for many years in a mercantile business. He married a daughter of John Sharon, who was a pioneer and large farmer in Jefferson County. Bert Julian Fogle was a small boy when his parents moved to Alliance, Ohio, and he was reared there and before he was seventeen years old had spent some three years as a student in Mt. Union College. His first training in the drug business was in a store in Pittsburgh, and from there he returned to Alliance and prior to coming to Toronto, December 21, 1885, coming as a clerk for the John Francy Company. In 1890 he went into partnership with George C. Pugh, and they purchased the store together and the business was conducted for a number of years under the firm style of Pugh & Fogle. Subsequently Mr. Fogle bought Mr. Pugh's interest. In 1900 Mr. Fogle was married to Miss Macy J. Francy, a daughter of R. M. Francy, and they have one daughter, Sarah Elizabeth. Mr. Fogle is identified with a number of fraternal organizations, including the Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmaen of the World.  Return to Family Tales
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