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in 1783, visited Europe, and whih^ in Fraiicr> was presented with the honor of le droit dn tabouret by Louis XVI. H.» was brevet ted brij^adier- general. Sept. 20. 1783; was a representative in the state legislature in 178o. He died in Eliza- bethtown, X.J.. March 31. 1791.

OGDEN, Robert, patriot, was born in Eliza- betiitown. X.J.. Oct. 16. 17i6. He was a member of the King's council, and from 1757 to 1765 was a member of the New Jersey legislature, being Speaker in 1763-65. He then became a delegate to the Continental congress. There wlien the Declaration of Rigiits and Grievances was drawn up. with petitions t<> the King and to Parliament, all the members signed them except Idr. Ogden and Timothy Ruggles, their reason being that those documents should he first submitted to the provincial assemblies. For this he was burned in effigy, after which he resigned his office. In 1776 he was chairman of the Elizabethtown committee of safety. He died in Sparta, N.J., Jan. 1. 1787.

OGDEN, Thomas Ludfow, lawyer, was born at Newark, N.J., Dec. 12. 1773; son of Abraham and Sarah (Ludlow) Ogden: grandson of David (bom 1707) and Martha (Hammond) Ogden, and a descendant of John Ogden of Elizabethtown, N.J., (1610-1681), one of the founders of that place. Abraham Ogden (1743-1800) was owner of Washington's headcpiarters in Morristown, N. J., and a friend of Washington. Thomas Lud- low Ogden was graduated from Columbia in 1791. He was a.'^sociated with Alexander Hamilton in the practice of law in New York, and was the counsellor for many corporations, including the Holland Land company. He was a trustee of the Indian reservation lands; of Sailors' Snug Harbor, New York; law officer of Trinity church corixna- tion; clerk, vestryman and senior waiilen of Trinity church; one of tiie original trustees of the General Theological Seminary of New \''ork; one of the founders and vice-president of the Protestant Episcopal Society for Promoting Re- ligion and Learning in the State of New Y'ork, and a trustee of Columbia college, 1817-44. He died in New York city, Dec. 17. 1844.

OGDEN, Uzal, clergyman, was born in New- ark. N.J., in 1744; son of Uzal Ogden (who died in 1780); grandson of David and Abigail Ogden, and a descendant of John and Jane (Bond) Ogden. John Ogden, said to have been a native of Kent county, England, was settled at Stam- ford, Conn., in 1641; removed to Hempstead, L.L, in 1644; to Southampton. L.I., in 1647, and afterward became one of the founders of Eliza- bethtown, N.J., and prominent in its affairs until his death in 1681. Uzal Ogden was j)repared for the ministry in Elizabethtown, N.J., under the Ilev Dr. Chandler and was ordained both deacon

and priest in the Established church, in the chapel of the Episcopal palace at Fulham, Middlesex, Sept. 21. 1773, by the Bishop of London. He re- turned to New Jersey, where he labored all his life. He preached occasionally in Trinity ciiurch, Newark, N.J., 1779-88; was an assistant minister of Trinity parish. New Y'ork city, 1784-89, and was also connected with St. John's church in Elizabethtown, N.J., and with a chapel at what is now Belleville, N.J. He was rector of Trinity church, Newark, N.J., 1788-1805; was elected bishop of New Jersey, Aug. 16, 1798, but conse- cration was refused him by tiie General conven- tion in June, 1799, on tiie grounds that doubts existed as to his qualifications in accordance with the canon. A special convention of New Jersey in October, 1799, asked that he be consecrated with- out delay, but nothing further is recorded until 1804, when h. was requested by the New Jersey convention to resign the rectorship of Trinity church, Newark, which he at first refused to do. Finally, however, he withdrew from the Protest- ant Episcopal church, but claimed the right to officiate as rector under his ordination to the priesthood in the Established cluirch, and in con- sequence was suspended by the standing commit- tee from ministerial duty in New Jersey, with the consent of Bishop Moore of New Y'ork. on May 9, 1805. On Oct. 16. 1805. he joined the Presbyterian ministry, although he never held a stated charge. He received the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1798. He was married to Mary, daughter of Samuel Gouver- neur of New Jersey, in 1774. He published nu- merous letters, sermons and addresses, and An- tidote to Deism (2 vols., 1795). He died in New- ark, N.J.. Nov. 4. 1822.

OGILBY, John David, clergyman, was born in Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 30, 1810; son of Leonard and Eliza (Darley) Ogilby. His parents immi- grated to the L'nited States in 1816. and he was graduated at Columbia college. A.B., 1829, A.M., 1833. He was the first rector of Columbia College grammar school, 1829-30: established and con- ducted a private school with Lorenzo L. Daponte, 1830-32. and was professor of ancient languages in Rutgers college. New Brunswick, N.J., 1832-40. In the meantime he studied theology and was or- dained to the Protestant EjiLscopal ministry in 1338. He served as substitute in various city churches. 1838-40, and during the absence of his brother, the Rev. Frederick Ogilby (born 1813-died 1878), in Europe, had charge of his church, the As- cension, in Philadelphia. He was professor of ecclesiastical history in the General Theological seminary. New Y'ork city, 1841-49, visiting Europe for the benefit of his health in 1842. 1846 and 1^40. He accepted the rectorship of Grace church at Newark, N.J., in 1846. but on the urgent