Sandor J. Vigg. A
leading member of the legal fraternity of Woods County, Sandor J.
Vigg has been a resident of Alva during
the entire period of his professional career. Coming here in 1908, he
soon attracted to himself a clientèle of the most desirable kind, and
having displayed his ability and learning was called upon to serve in
offices of public trust, the duties of which he discharged with a
fidelity that placed him in the confidence of his fellow-citizens.
Mr. Vigg was born
July 22, 1879, in Austria-Hungary, and is a son of Georgia and
Elizabeth (Berekszazi) Vigg. The father was born in 1852, in the same
country, and was a small farmer in his native land, where the family
had lived for generations. He could not see any promising future
before him in Austria, and accordingly, in 1891, came to the United
States, of the opportunities of which land he had heard so much. He
was without capital, but located on a farm in Barber County, Kansas,
where through economy and thrift, united with tireless labor, he
managed to secure a small property, and in 1897 moved to Woods County
and settled on Government land, twelve and one-half miles northwest
of Alva. Here he has since developed into a successful farmer, and
his career is one worthy of emulation by the youth of the land, and
worthy of the respect of all who admire self-made manhood. Mr. Vigg
was married in 1876 to Miss Elizabeth Berekszazi, who was born in
1852 in the same locality as her husband, and they became the parents
of four sons and three daughters, as follows: Sandor J., of this
notice; Mary K., educated at Northwestern State Normal, of Alva,
married in 1912, Charles Duncan, a native of New Jersey and a
successful merchant at Culver City, California, and has one child,
Eugene; Julia, educated at Oklahoma Northwestern Normal School,
taught in the public schools of Woods County, but now resides at Los
Angeles, California; and three sons and one daughter, who are
deceased.
Sandor J. Vigg
received his early education in the schools of his native land and
was twelve years of age when he emigrated to the United States with
his parents. Later he went to the public schools of Barber County,
Kansas, and completed his preparatory studies in the Oklahoma
Northwestern Normal School, at Alva, where he was graduated in the
class of 1906. At that time he entered upon the study of law, in the
legal department of the University of
Kansas, and graduated therefrom in 1908, with the degree of Bachelor
of Laws, and June 4th of that year was admitted to the bar of
Oklahoma, after successfully passing an examination before the
Supreme Court. Mr. Vigg took up his professional duties at Alva,
where he opened an office and continued in a general practice until
1910, when he was elected prosecuting attorney of Woods County. His
services were of an eminently satisfactory nature, and in 1912 he
received the re-election. Mr. Vigg is a republican and takes a keen
interest in the success of his party. Fraternally, he is connected
with the local lodges of the Masons, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and the Modern Woodmen of America. Every movement which
promises to be of benefit to his community may rely upon his hearty
support and co-operation.
On June 25, 1910, at
Cherokee, Oklahoma, Mr. Vigg was married to Miss Nettie A. Paul,
daughter of Otto and Callie (Davis) Paul, natives of Franklin,
Indiana. Mrs. Vigg was born in June,
1884, at Franklin, Indiana, and graduated from the Oklahoma
Northwestern Normal School in 1908, and before her marriage was for
four years a teacher in the Cherokee High School. Three children have
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Vigg: Harriet, born September 15, 1911;
Paul, born January 14, 1914; and Karl, born October 25, 1915. He was
appointed county attorney of Woods County, Oklahoma, in October,
1915, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the removal of the regularly
elected county attorney of said county.