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Ogden family papers MSS 15524


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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/

Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Identification
MSS 15524
Title
Ogden family papers 1801-1979
URL:
https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/232
Quantity
3 Cubic Feet, 6 legal document boxes
Language
English .

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MS 15524, Ogden family papers, Small Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was a gift from Martha Senter Green and Lester Senter Wilson to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia on April 29, 2013.

Biographical / Historical

Ogden family in the nineteenth century originated from Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and moved to Virginia, and westward. The patriarch of this family was Elias Ogden Jr. (1797-1874) who married Maria Louisa Gordon Ogden (1808-1881) in 1829. Maria Louisa was the daughter of John Matthews Gordon (1781-1840) from Lynchburg, Virginia. Elias and Maria Louisa had nine children and lived in Abingdon, Virginia, Warrensburg, Missouri, and Bossier Parish, Louisiana, where Elias Ogden was a successful merchant.

Content Description

Ogden Family papers, 1801-1979, 3 cubic feet containing family correspondence about the Civil War, politics, Freedmen, race riots, and mostly describing a young family trying to make a living in farming, and merchant business with westward expansion after the Civil War.

The family of Elias and Maria Louisa Gordon Ogden came from Newark, New Jersey and settled in several places including Abingdon, Virginia, Warrenton, Missouri, and Bossian Parish, Louisiana. One of the sons (Henry "Harry" Warren Ogden) was a state representative in Shreveport, La. Another son, Beverly Johnston Ogden died in a race riot in 1868. There are also slavery claims, property deeds, wills, genealogy, photographs, writings, poems, and business letters.

There are also photographs from other family members including Rice, Dunlop, and McGavock.

Container List

Family correspondence
0.8 Cubic Feet 2 document boxes
1801-1979English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 1
    Family miscellaneous letters
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1824, 1854-1899English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 2
    Elias Ogden, Jr.
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1801-1868English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 3
    Maria Louisa Gordon Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1823-1835English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 4
    Maria Louisa Gordon Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1848-1879English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 5
    Maria Louisa Gordon Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1864English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 6
    John Gordon Ogden and his wife Jane White Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1852-1854English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 7
    John Gordon Ogden and his wife Jane White Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1855English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 8
    John Gordon Ogden and his wife Jane White Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1857English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 9
    John Gordon Ogden and his wife Jane White Ogdon
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1858English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 10
    John Gordon Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1853-1866English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 11
    John Gordon Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1867-1869, 1877English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 12
    Jane White Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1854-1857; undatedEnglish.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 13
    Julia Ann Payne
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1858-1900English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 14
    Thomas Ogden to Mollie
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1860English.
  • Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899242] folder: 15
    Emma Louisa Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1860-1878English.
  • Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899250] folder: 1
    Henry "Harry" Warren Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1864-1903English.
  • Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899250] folder: 2
    Henry "Harry" Warren and Mary Holcombe Scott Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1868-1873English.
  • Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899250] folder: 3
    Henry "Harry" Warren and Mary Holcombe Scott Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1877-1879English.
  • Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899250] folder: 4
    Henry "Harry" Warren and Mary Holcombe Scott Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1879-1885English.
  • Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899250] folder: 5
    Henry "Harry" Warren Ogden to his daughter Mary Scott Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1892-1898English.
  • Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899250] folder: 6
    Henry "Harry" Warren Ogden to his daughter Mary Scott Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1899-1905English.
  • Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899250] folder: 7
    Beverly Johnston Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1866-1868English.
  • Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899250] folder: 8
    Beverly Johnston Ogden (death)
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1868English.
  • Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899250] folder: 9
    Gordon "Gordie" Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1867-1910English.
  • Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899250] folder: 10
    Dr. James Newton Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1867-1879English.
  • Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899250] folder: 11
    Dr. James W. Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1867-1879English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 1
    Dr. James W. Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1880-1881English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 2
    Dr. James W. Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
    1883-1886English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 3
    Lucy Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    [1871]English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 4
    Thomas A. Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1873-1876English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 5
    Colonel John M. Gordon
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1825-1828English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 5
    Roy and Lucy Holcombe Scott
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1842-1851English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 6
    Scott family letters
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1864-1884English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 7
    Julia Payne Dickson
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1901-1925 [1971]; undatedEnglish.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 8
    Martha Louise Dickson
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1941English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 10
    Ogden Dickson
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1974-1979English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 11
    Mary Scott Ogden
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    UndatedEnglish.
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Business papers
0.04 Cubic Feet
1826-1941English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 12
    McKee and Ogden business letters
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1826English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 13
    Elias Ogden business letters
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1828; 1865-1868English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 14
    Property and slave claims and accounts
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1843-1859English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 15
    Receipts
    0.03 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1843-1869English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 15
    John Gordon Ogden and James W. Ogden business papers
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1853-1890English.
  • Manuscripts box: 3 [X030899251] folder: 16
    James B. Picket share cropping agreement with freedman
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1868English.
  • Manuscripts box: 4 [X030899252] folder: 1
    Dickson business papers
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1922-1932English.
  • Manuscripts box: 4 [X030899252] folder: 2
    Dickson business papers
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1932-1941English.
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Legal papers
1854-1950English.
  • Manuscripts box: 4 [X030899252] folder: 3
    Ogden and White estate
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1854English.
  • Manuscripts box: 4 [X030899252] folder: 4
    Mary Holcombe Scott Ogden will
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    [1886]English.
  • Manuscripts box: 4 [X030899252] folder: 5
    Henry "Harry" Warren Ogden deeds
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1887-1889English.
  • Manuscripts box: 4 [X030899252] folder: 6
    Emma Louisa Ogden will
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    UndatedEnglish.
  • Manuscripts box: 4 [X030899252] folder: 7
    Dickson legal deeds
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1865-1883English.
  • Manuscripts box: 4 [X030899252] folder: 8
    Dickson legal deeds
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1880-1923English.
  • Manuscripts box: 4 [X030899252] folder: 9
    Dickson legal deeds
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1923-1950English.
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Personal and miscellaneous
1 Cubic Feet Two document boxes
1847-1977English.
Scope and Contents

Genealogy information, Duchein family, photographs, albums, writings, and miscellaneous items. Included is a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Senator Tom Connally about Lenora Corona and letters of Ogden relative E. G. Senter.

  • Manuscripts box: 5 [X030899253] folder: 1
    Genealogy information
    UndatedEnglish.
  • Manuscripts box: 5 [X030899253] folder: 2
    Duchein family (descendants of Henry and Mary Scott Ogden)
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1958-1977English.
    Scope and Contents

    Letters about memorial and cemetery plots for Henry and Mary Ogden, Distinquished Flying Cross award to Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Duchein, and family letters about relationships of relatives.

  • Manuscripts box: 5 [X030899253] folder: 3
    Eleanor Roosevelt letter to Senator Tom Connally about singer Leonora Corona
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1933English.
    Scope and Contents

    Request for Eleanor Roosevelt to invite family friend Leonora Corona to sing at the White House and Mrs. Roosevelt response that she will invite her next year.

  • Manuscripts box: 5 [X030899253] folder: 4
    Miscellaneous family letters and writings
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1847; undatedEnglish.
    Scope and Contents

    Writings by Henry Ogden, unidentified family letter about visiting and parties; a certification that Mr. A. Price is a worthy master mason in good standing; and William Lipscomb [census].

  • Manuscripts box: 5 [X030899253] folder: 5
    Miscellaneous notebooks
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1890; undatedEnglish.
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 [X030899253] folder: 7
    Photographs and daguerreotypes
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    undatedEnglish.
    Scope and Contents

    Photograph of Emma Louisa Ogden. [Roy Scott; John Gordon Ogden]Also includes one albumin print.

  • Photographs box: 5 [X030899253] folder: 8
    Photographs
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    undatedEnglish.
    Scope and Contents

    Photographs are mostly unidentified.

  • Photographs box: 5 [X030899253] folder: 9
    Photographs
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1885-1896; UndatedEnglish.
    Scope and Contents

    Photographs from Rice, Dunlop, and McGavock families

  • Photographs box: 6 [X030899254] folder: 1
    Photographs
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1893-1909; UndatedEnglish.
    Scope and Contents

    Photographs from Dunlop and Rice families

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 [X030899254] folder: 2
    Printed programs
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1854-1953English.
    Scope and Contents

    University of Virginia Exercises of the Public Day, June 29th, 1876, Lynchburg Female Seminary Twenty-fifth Session commencement September 11, 1854, University of the City of New York matriculation ticket 1876-1877, ABingdon Male Academy order of exercises June 17, 1870, and miscellaneous ads and lyrics for Carry Me Back to Old Virginny.

  • Manuscripts box: 6 [X030899254] folder: 3
    Martha E. Lipscombs album
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1851English.
  • Manuscripts box: 6 [X030899254] folder: 4
    Mary Holcombe Scott Ogden journal and account book
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder.
    1868-1870; UndatedEnglish.
  • Photographs box: 6 [X030899254] folder: 5
    Photograph album
    0.04 Cubic Feet One folder custom made box
    UndatedEnglish.
    Scope and Contents

    Contains photographs of Henry and Mary Ogden

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