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Title: The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wheeler, William Ogden, 1837-1900 Van Alstyne, Lawrence, b. 1839, ed Ogden, Charles Burr, 1855- joint ed
Subjects: Ogden family (John Ogden, 1609-1682)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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n New Orleans to President Grantand the U. S. Attorney General, Geo. H. Williams, who was present throughout the inter-view. Subsequently, the delegation were twice before the Senate Committee on Privilegesand Elections, Senators Matthew H. Carpenter and Levi P. Morton presiding on the differentoccasions. The foregoing incident shows the high esteem and confidence reposed in Mr.Ogden by his fellow citizens. In 1879, the resident secretary of the Southern Dept of the Liverpool and London andGlobe Ins. Co., who had been appointed in Mr. Ogdens place, suddenly died, and, with manyothers, he applied for the position. His reappointment was very gratifying to Mr. Ogden,as well as being a high compliment from his old company. In 1893, ^d when 70 years of age, he sufiered a stroke of apoplexy, accompanied byparalysis of the left side. He partially recovered from this, but had a second attack in 1895and felt the necessity of resigning his secretaryship, to take effect Dec. 31, 1896. He was 306
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HENRY VINING OGDEN, Jr., M.D.No. 2801 Ctgi^t)^ (0eneration the first manager appointed by any foreign company having a department and headquartersin the South, and is today (July, 1903) the oldest survivor of the old fire-underwritingregime in the city of New Orleans. For the few past years, Mr. Ogden has resided in Mil-waukee, Wis., going there from New Orleans in May, 1896. Politically, Mr. Ogden was originally an old line Whig; consequently he had naturalpredilections for the Republican party; but a candid study of the political situation at theopening of the Civil War led him to fully espouse the Southern cause. The political condi-tions prevailing in Louisiana after the war confirmed his opinions, and he acted till lateyears with the Democratic party. Mr. Ogden always had a candid and unprejudiced judg-ment, and the following excerpt of a recent letter to a friend is apropos here, and character-istic of the man: I felt badly when the Confederacy went down. Now I am sure the resol
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