The collection is open for research use.
This collection was a gift from Martha Senter Green and Lester Senter Wilson to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia on April 29, 2013.
Ogden family in the nineteenth century originated from Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and moved to Virginia, and westward. The patriarch of this family was Elias Ogden Jr. (1797-1874) who married Maria Louisa Gordon Ogden (1808-1881) in 1829. Maria Louisa was the daughter of John Matthews Gordon (1781-1840) from Lynchburg, Virginia. Elias and Maria Louisa had nine children and lived in Abingdon, Virginia, Warrensburg, Missouri, and Bossier Parish, Louisiana, where Elias Ogden was a successful merchant.
MS 15524, Ogden family papers, Small Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.
Ogden Family papers, 1801-1979, 3 cubic feet containing family correspondence about the Civil War, politics, Freedmen, race riots, and mostly describing a young family trying to make a living in farming, and merchant business with westward expansion after the Civil War.
The family of Elias and Maria Louisa Gordon Ogden came from Newark, New Jersey and settled in several places including Abingdon, Virginia, Warrenton, Missouri, and Bossian Parish, Louisiana. One of the sons (Henry "Harry" Warren Ogden) was a state representative in Shreveport, La. Another son, Beverly Johnston Ogden died in a race riot in 1868. There are also slavery claims, property deeds, wills, genealogy, photographs, writings, poems, and business letters.
There are also photographs from other family members including Rice, Dunlop, and McGavock.
Genealogy information, Duchein family, photographs, albums, writings, and miscellaneous items. Included is a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Senator Tom Connally about Lenora Corona and letters of Ogden relative E. G. Senter.
Letters about memorial and cemetery plots for Henry and Mary Ogden, Distinquished Flying Cross award to Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Duchein, and family letters about relationships of relatives.
Request for Eleanor Roosevelt to invite family friend Leonora Corona to sing at the White House and Mrs. Roosevelt response that she will invite her next year.
Writings by Henry Ogden, unidentified family letter about visiting and parties; a certification that Mr. A. Price is a worthy master mason in good standing; and William Lipscomb [census].
Photograph of Emma Louisa Ogden. [Roy Scott; John Gordon Ogden]Also includes one albumin print.
Photographs are mostly unidentified.
Photographs from Rice, Dunlop, and McGavock families
Photographs from Dunlop and Rice families
University of Virginia Exercises of the Public Day, June 29th, 1876, Lynchburg Female Seminary Twenty-fifth Session commencement September 11, 1854, University of the City of New York matriculation ticket 1876-1877, ABingdon Male Academy order of exercises June 17, 1870, and miscellaneous ads and lyrics for Carry Me Back to Old Virginny.
Contains photographs of Henry and Mary Ogden