Individual Notes

Note for: Elias B. Ogg, 6 MAY 1814 - 5 MAR 1894 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Pleasant Hill Cemetery

Individual Note:
     Elias and Catherine migrated to Iowa in about 1939.

Elias Brown Ogg

ELIAS BROWN OGG (King of Bashan), a pioneer of Iowa in 1839 and formerly a prominent business man of Mt. Pleasant, is now a resident of Marion Township, Henry County. Mr. Ogg is a farmer, and proprietor and manufacturer of Ogg's Hawkeye Liniment, a well-known and popular remedy for many of the ills flesh is heir to. He was born in Baltimore County, Md., May 6, 1814, and is the son of William H. and Catherine (Logsdon) Ogg. The first fifteen years ofhis life were spent in his native county, and in 1829 he went with his parents to what is now West Virginia; a year and a half later he returned to his old home, and in 1831 went to Knox County, Ohio, where he began at the age of seventeen years to make his own way in the world. He was employed at driving a team and doing farm work at $9 a month, for which liberal compensation he was required to render service eighteen hours daily. He returned to Maryland in February, 1832, and the month of October (1833) in his twentieth year, he was married to Miss Catherine Brothers. Mrs. Ogg was born in Baltimore County, Md., and was a schoolmate of her husband. In 1836 Mr. Ogg removed to Knox County, Ohio, and in the spring of 1839 came to Iowa. He located in Des Moines County, eleven miles west of Burlington, where he bought land and made a farm. In 1850 Mr. Ogg came to Mt. Pleasant, where he engaged in mercantile business. He built the first three-story brick building in the city, in which he opened a general store. After five years spent in this line, he sold his stock to Waters & Eastman and his building to William White. He then engaged extensively in the land agency business, and was also a Justice of the Peace. He continued in that business two years, during which time he located more land warrants than any other man in this section of the country, and did a large and profitable business, by which he accumulated a large amount of money. He then engaged in the banking business, in company with Henry Barclay and Henry Swan, under the firm name of Barclay, Ogg & Swan. They began business in an unfortunate time, the opening of 1857, the year of the great financial crash. Mr. Ogg had the misfortune to nearly lose his eyesight by inflammation, and for a long time was incapacitated from attending to business. The banking business seems to have been badly managed, and in a few years Mr. Ogg found himself financially ruined. He retired to a small farm in Marion Township, where he now resides, and for several years has devoted his attention largely to the manufacture and sale of his proprietary medicines. Mr. and Mrs. Ogg were the parents of twelve children: Joshua J., now residing in Florida; William H. died at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, leaving a widow and two children; Ann is the wife of C.T. Stevenson, and lives in Marion Township; Martha E. is the wife of William H. Cox, and resides in Ottumwa, Iowa; Elizabeth is the wife of Oscar Mitts, and resides in Marion Township; Charles B. married Mary Ferguson, and lives on the old homestead in Marion Township; Malachi married Mary Lamborn, and lives in Marion Township; Catherine, deceased; Alfred F., deceased; Elias B., deceased, was married to Mary Ann Anderson; Lydia, deceased, was married to George Mitts; Tom, deceased, married to Sarah Ann Farmer; he left a wife and three children. Mr. Ogg has attained considerable prominence as an interesting writer of local chronicles, under the nom de plume of the "King of Bashan".

(Portrait and Biographical Album, Henry County, Iowa; Acme Publishing Company, Chicago, 1888, p. 416)
(PW)

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Ann Smith, 1 AUG 1840 - 2 SEP 1923 Index

Burial:
Place: Hickory Grove Cemetery, Iowa

Individual Notes

Note for: Owen Ogg, 25 OCT 1867 - 25 NOV 1894 Index

Burial:
Place: Hickory Grove Cemetery, Iowa

Individual Notes

Note for: James Ogg, Chr. 1810 - Index

Baptism:
     Date:   1820
     Place:   Baltimore County Maryland

Christening:
     Date:   1810
     Place:   Baltimore County Maryland

Burial:
     Date:   1800
     Place:   Baltimore County Maryland

Individual Notes

Note for: George IV Ogg, JUL 1746 - 13 NOV 1847 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   29 AUG 1812
     Place:   War of 1912

Residence:
     Place:   Green Spring Valley

Burial:
     Date:   1778
     Place:   Oath of Allegiance

Individual Notes

Note for: Benjamin Ogg, 29 APR 1748 - 1821 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   1821
     Place:   Baltimore County Maryland

Residence:
     Place:   Green Spring Valley

Will:
     Date:   15 NOV 1821
     Place:   Names brother George Ogg

Burial:
     Place:   Oath of Allegiance

Individual Notes

Note for: Rachael Ogg, 1754 - 12 AUG 1843 Index

Residence:
Place: Maryland

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Ogg, ABT 1758 - Index

Residence:
Place: Maryland

Individual Notes

Note for: George Jr. Ogg, 30 APR 1696 - AFT 1756 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   25 JUN 1699
     Place:   Anne Arundel County Maryland

Christening:
     Date:   13 OCT 1736
     Place:   Baltimore County

Individual Notes

Note for: Francis Poteet, 3 JAN 1666/67 - BEF 3 AUG 1709 Index

Christening:
     Date:   3 JAN 1666/67
     Place:   Baltimore Count
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