The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . him as its friend and adviser, gave him occupation enough to fully employ the administra-tive talent and executive ability with which he was gifted. He was one of the Commissioners appointed by the general government to defineand settle the boundary line between Canada and the States, with reference more particu-larly to the islands in the St. Lawrence river. One of them, the Isle au Rapide de Plat,then so-called and afterward and still known as Ogdens Island
The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . him as its friend and adviser, gave him occupation enough to fully employ the administra-tive talent and executive ability with which he was gifted. He was one of the Commissioners appointed by the general government to defineand settle the boundary line between Canada and the States, with reference more particu-larly to the islands in the St. Lawrence river. One of them, the Isle au Rapide de Plat,then so-called and afterward and still known as Ogdens Island, opposite the village ofWaddington, containing nearly a thousand acres, was bought by him from Daniel McCor-mick, the original patentee, in 1815, and upon it he shortly afterwards erected a largeand handsome mansion, in which he raised a numerous family, and which still remains tocommemorate his name. The dearth of labor in the conditions then prevailing was aserious problem; the solution of it was much aided by Mr. Ogden, who personally exertedhimself to tap the stream of Irish immigration at Montreal, and draw from it enough to. supply the local demands of the settlement. At an early date he also initiated measures forthe building of a church. Beginning it about 1812, and with some aid from Trinity Church,New York, and personal friends, but most largely through his own means and efforts, itwas finally completed, paid for, and consecrated 22 August 1818. He gave it two hundredand fifty acres of glebe lands, and twenty-five acres for a cemetery. He also gave the villagea considerable tract of land for a public park, showing in this way the spirit that animatedhim in all his relations to the people among whom he had come to live. It was a busy,useful and honorable life,-but a short one, Mr. Ogden having died while yet in its prime, onJune II, 1829; and it was a life that did honor to his God, his country, and himself. The following epitaphs are on tablets in the chancel of St.
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