Named for realtor Henry August Vossler (1876-1925). Born in Iowa and raised in West Virginia, Vossler was the son of German immigrants. He enlisted in the Spanish–American War in 1898 but soon went home due to illness – likely typhoid. After some years in the hardware business, Vossler, who never married, removed himself to Gary, IN, where he became one of that city’s best-known real estate dealers and even ran for local office several times, to no avail. He then came to Los Angeles c. 1921 and got a job as a salesman for real estate bigwig J.D. Millar. We can thank Vossler’s friendship with South Gate realtor Sam Dudlext for Vossler Avenue, which Dudlext named in 1923. The two men traveled to Florida in August 1925 to look into that state’s real estate boom; Dudlext soon came home while Vossler stayed on, at his peril – a stroke felled him in his West Palm Beach hotel room that December.
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