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562 up Arnold, Andre might be saved. This state- ment was promptly communicated to Sir Henry, but honor would not allow the surrender. Ogden afterward accompanied Lafayette in his campaign in Virginia during 1781, and at the siege of York- town, with his company, gallantly stormed the left redoubt of the enemy, for which he was " honored with the peculiar approbation of Washington." After the war he studied law, followed that pro- fession with success, and was chosen a presidential elector in 179G. He was appointed lieutenant- colonel commandant of the 11th U. S. infantry on 8 Jan., 1799, and was made, on 26 Feb., 1800, deputy quartermaster-general of the U. S. army, which place he held until the provisional array was disbanded on 15 June, 1800. Col. Ogden was made U. S. senator on 28 Feb., 1801, to succeed James Schureman, who had resigned, and he held that office for two years. He was chosen by the legislature, on 29 Oct., 1813, to succeed Joseph Bloomtield as governor of New Jersey. During the war of 1812 he was commander-in-chief of the New Jersey militia, and was appointed major-gen- eral of the U. S. array, but declined that honor, preferring the state command. In 1806 he was ap- pointed by the legislature of New Jersey one of the commissioners to meet like officials on the part of New York to settle questions of boundaries and jurisdiction between the states. Col. Ogden was a trustee of Princeton in 1803-'12 and in 1817-39, and that college conferred on him in 1816 the de- gree of LL. D. He was president of the State so- ciety of the Cincinnati from 1824. and president- general of the organization from 1829 till his death. — Aaron's son, Elias Bailey Dayton, jurist, b. in Elizabethtown, 22 May, 1799; d. there, 24 Feb., 1865, was graduated at Princeton in 1819, and then studied law. He was made prosecutor of the pleas for Essex county in 1828, and for Passaic county in 1838, becoming in 1848 associate justice of the supreme court of New Jersey. In 1844 he was a member of the State constitutional conven- tion, and he was admitted to the Society of the Cincinnati on 4 July, 1861.

OGDEN, Uzal, clergyman, b. in Newark, N. J., about 1744 ; d. in Newark, N. J., 4 Nov., 1822. He studied theology in Elizabethtown, and then, going abroad, received at the same time both deacon's and priest's orders in the Protestant Episcopal church on 21 Sept., 1773, from the bishop of Lon- don. For some years after the beginning of his ministry he labored as a missionary in Sussex county, N. J., but after April, 1779, he preached occasionally in Trinity church, Newark, of which parish he was rector from 1788 till 1805. Mean- while he was in 1784-'9 one of the assistant minis- ters of Trinity church in New York city, and con- nected with St. John's in Elizabethtown, also preaching at least once each Sunday in a chapel at what is now Belleville, N. J. In 1798 he was elected bishop of New Jersey, but consecration was refused by the general convention in June, 1799, owing to difficulties that existed between him and his parish. These culminated in 1804, and his suspension was authorized if he persisted in his re- fusal to resign. In 1805 he became a Presbyterian, but, although he continued active in missionary work, he never thereafter held a charge. The de- gree of D. D. was conferred on him by Princeton in 1798. He published numerous letters, addresses, sermons, and " Antidote to Deism " (2 vols., 1795), being an ample refutation of all the objections of Thomas Paine against the Christian religion, as contained in a pamphlet entitled "The Age of Reason," addressed to the citizens of these states.

OGDEN, Wesley, jurist, b. in Brockport, N. Y., 16 Dec, 1818. He was educated in public schools and at Genesee Wesleyan seminary, Lima, N. Y., after which he studied in Ohio, where in 1845 he was admitted to the bar. In 1849 he emigrated to Texas and began the practice of his profession in Lavaca, where he continued until the beginning of the civil war. He then left the state, and from 1863 until the close of the war resided in New Or- leans, after which he settled in San Antonio, Tex. During 1865-'7 he held the office of district attor- ney, and then was district judge until 1870, when he became a judge of the state supreme court.

OGDEN, William Butler, first mayor of Chi- cago, b. in Walton, N. Y., 15 June, 1805 ; d. in New York city, 3 Aug., 1877. He was intended for the law, but the death of his father in 1821 compelled him to take charge of the latter's business afl:airs. In 1834 he was elected to the legislature, where he advocated the construction of the Erie railway. Becoming convinced of the early development of western property, he removed to Chicago in 1835, where he established a land and trust agency that still exists. He soon became closely identified with the growth of the various enterprises that centre around Chicago, and on its incorporation as a city in 1837 became its first mayor. Mr. Ogden was active in the initial movement that led to the con- struction of the Chicago and Galena railroad, and, among others, pledged his private fortune for its completion as far as Elgin, 111., becoming, in 1847, its president. In 1853 he visited Europe, and made a special study of the canals of Holland, which con- vinced him of the importance of enlarging and deepening the Illinois and Michigan canal, so as to make it navigable for steamboats plying between Chicago and New Orleans. He was also an earnest advocate of the construction of a ship-canal across the southern portion of the Michigan peninsula. In 1855 he became president of the Chicago, St. Paul, and Fond du Lac railway company, and in 1864 he effected the consolidation of that road with the Chicago and Galena railroad, out of which grew the Chicago and Northwestern railroad company, of which he was made president. Mr. Ogden presided over the National Pacific railroad convention at Philadelphia in 1850, and on the formation of the Union Pacific railroad company was elected its first president. He was a firm believer in the final success of the Northern Pacific railway, and was largely concerned with its inception. Various other interests of public importance were conpelled by him, notably the great lumbering establishments at Peshtigo, Wis., and at the time of his death he was considered the owner of the largest plant of that kind in the world. His charities were extensive, and nearly all of the institutions of the northwest, including the Rush medical college, of which he was president, the Theological seminary of the northwest, the Chicago historical society, the Academy of sciences, the Astronomical society, the University of Chicago, and the Chicago woman's home, were recipients of his bounty. Shortly after his death a chapel was erected to his memory in Elmira by his widow. Mrs. Ogden also presented in 1885 a chime of ten bells to Trinity cathedral in Omaha, Neb., in her husband's meraory. and has also erected in Elmira, N. Y.. the Arnot-Ogden memorial hospital in honor of her own family and that of her husband.

OGÉ, Jacques Vincent (o-zhay), Haytian in- surgent, b. in Dondon in 1750 ; d. in Port an Prince, 26 Feb., 1791. He was a mulatto, descended from a rich family, and received his education in Paris, entering afterward the service of one of the