The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . r, but lively and witty, and a favorite with every-body. He was a great practical joker, carrying his love of fun and frolic to great lengths. For twenty years subsequent to 1824, John McLaughlin had been the dominant spiritof the Hudsons Bay Co. and of the northwest coast, residing at Fort Vancouver on theColumbia River. Because of his humanity toward distressed emigrants and undue famili-arity with United States settlers, the London management sought to wea
The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . r, but lively and witty, and a favorite with every-body. He was a great practical joker, carrying his love of fun and frolic to great lengths. For twenty years subsequent to 1824, John McLaughlin had been the dominant spiritof the Hudsons Bay Co. and of the northwest coast, residing at Fort Vancouver on theColumbia River. Because of his humanity toward distressed emigrants and undue famili-arity with United States settlers, the London management sought to weaken his positionby vesting the supreme power on the Pacific in a board of management consisting of Mc-Laughlin, James Douglas and Peter Skene Ogden as chief factors. When Dr. McLaughlinretired, Douglas and Ogden continued the management as a board with headquarters stillat Fort Vancouver. Bancroft calls them fearless, warm-hearted, open-handed and clear-headed. In 1846 James Douglas had removed to Vancouver Island, where a post had been estab-lished at Victoria, and which became the Companys headquarters, and Peter Skene Ogden 180. PETER SKENE OGDEN No. 480 ^etenti^ (feneration was in command on the Columbia. He was a man of wonderful genius and tact, and when-ever the Hudsons Bay Co. had occasion to send one of their officers on a delicate and danger-ous mission, Peter Skene Ogden was the man chosen for it. A writer says of him: Hiseven temper, his great flow of good humor, and his wonderful patience, tact and perseverance,his utter disregard of personal inconvenience and suffering, rendered him just the man forany difficult or dangerous task, He was greatly esteemed by his brother officers and almostworshipped by his men and by the Indians. After more than thirty years of these experiences, his last great work was in connectionwith the Whitman massacre at Waiilatpu in 1847 by the Cayuses, when the missionary , his wife, and nine other whites were slain by the savage
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