. Delaware County, New York; history of the century, 1797-1897; centennial celebration, June 9 and 10, 1897. derly done, and accompanied by a detachment ofhis command his l)ody was brought to Delhi. Here it was receivedbv every demonstration of sorrow and respect by his townsmen andthe military authorities of the State. The fuucral was held IMay , and he was buried in the spot w^here his monument nowstands. This was erected shoitly afterwards by his achuiriuf^friends. It bears the following iuscrip)tion: On the West Front: (hi the Xinih Front: In JIejioet of Henbt Leavenworth,Colonel of
. Delaware County, New York; history of the century, 1797-1897; centennial celebration, June 9 and 10, 1897. derly done, and accompanied by a detachment ofhis command his l)ody was brought to Delhi. Here it was receivedbv every demonstration of sorrow and respect by his townsmen andthe military authorities of the State. The fuucral was held IMay , and he was buried in the spot w^here his monument nowstands. This was erected shoitly afterwards by his achuiriuf^friends. It bears the following iuscrip)tion: On the West Front: (hi the Xinih Front: In JIejioet of Henbt Leavenworth,Colonel of the U. S. 2d Infantkt .\ND Bbigadieb General in the Army. .\s A Testimonial To his ptblic and phivate wokth His Begiment have erected This MoNrMENT. On the South Front: On the Fast Front. B<iRN AT New Haven, Connectktt, December 10, 1783. Died In the Service of his Cointey Near the False Waschita .TlLY 21, lH,3t. Fob his Civic VirtuesHis Fellow-Citizens of Delaware Honored him with a SeatIn the Legislature of New York : The Fields of Chippewa, Niagara and .\uricharee Establish his Fame as a iAr. clay Gould. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 17<) WILLIAM B. OGDEN.* The faiiiilv in wliicli William I?. Oj^ilcii lielonged cunie to Dcla-wiire ciiunty from Monistown, New .Icrsey. It seems to haveeujovetl the special friendship of Goveruor Dickersou of that State,because we find that a yoimger brother of William B. was uamedafter the ^overuor Mahlou Dickersou Ogdeu. It is stated thatAbraham the father of William started out to Hud a suitable j)laceiu which to settle. He had about dctermiued upou Washiufttou,the uew capital of the uatiou; but he met a frieud iu Philadel))hia,who had purchased a large tract of laud iu the wild regicms ou theupper Delaware. He set forth so attractively the opportunities forlaud and lumber iu this picturesipie region, that it cmlcd iu theagreement of the Ogdeus to go to Delaware county instead ofWashington. Accordingly iu ITHT a colouy of this famil
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