"i~i?~~E;~ )~.u. ~) ~ J ~England. The old . ?"he The Romans went and the Saxons landed proprietors are the ancient nobility. The "' .1g-ion~d the Jutes came, and the Angles came, old writers speak of the nobility titled and un­ .,.me. a Danes came, and all manner of strange titled. Those families whose names are the 1.:1d tpe ·ce people landed on th e eastern shores same as their estates, are the noblest. (From ~d ~e~n. With beguili_ng words th~y entered Chambers Edinburg Journal.) Ida began his ~ 1 B!1tmes and with lovmg protestatwns they reign as the first king of Northumbria, A. D. :Jr ~od our daughters. But soon, alas! so 547. At his death in 559, he was succeeded by ::-.arr,ie they trampled out our hearth fi_res and his son Adda. (Lappensberg's History of Eng­ ,.oon ··led our altars; and they set up Kmgdoms land.) His dominion extended from the river ~ sporo n gships among us and now the shepherd Humor on the south to the Firth of Forth, and the husbandman of the Cymry and the great on the east and west from sea to sea, thus em­ an~ bracing on the north nearly all that territory a.n d Sovereign Lords of the Cymry are gone, spoken of as Lowland Scotland. a.n the speech of our fat~ers has passed from ..,"Cil d the songs of our childhood are forgotten. Ogle Intermarriages ;l.' an happy Briton has become the home of Once gers -(Original) Dr. Simeon Todd. The Ogles from the earliest period of their 1tran · authentic history have been allied by marriage with families of note. Among these in the northern counties of England, all historic names, The history of the Ogles was collected were the Selbys, the Hepples, the Bertrams, ·hrough the persistent efforts of Simeon Todd, the Swinburns, the Hetons, the Femvicks, the ~ noted surgeon of Kansas City, _Mo. H~ was Gascoynes, the Delavals, the Carnabys, the a J:randson of Hiram Ogle, the pwneer, hem~ a Grays, etc. In Lancashire, were the Brooks, con of his eldest daughter, Mary, who marned the Leylands, the Welbys, the Fitzwilliams, and l~ dd Todd. Dr. Todd gave the _best years. of the Lincolnshires. Through these alliances hLc life and an entire fortune to .t~1s work, dymg their descendants are to be found among the ·:no ·t penniless. He mad~ y1s1ts to England most distinguished houses of the English no­ ri !lcarch for history pertammg to the remote bility, such as William and Henry CaYendish, ancestors of the Ogle family. He secured from Earls of Ogle and Dukes of Newcastle, His lib raries volumes containing authentic history Grace John Manners, and succeeding Dukes of or the family, aggregating large sums of Rutland. His Grace William Henry Cavendish r.onev · these books are now in possession of a Bentwick and succeeding Dukes of Portland. :\• la li~· ~ in Chicago, Ill. He visited the tombs There were the Ogles of Ogle Castle, The Ogles o ~ rornlty where repose many of the different of Bothval Castle, and Lords Ogle, The Ogles of fa milies of Ogle; their castles of which many Cansey Park and Bebside, The Ogles of Kirkley are now in ruins. We now quote from Dr. Hall, The Ogl es of Chappington and ' Elingham, Todd's history: "The Ogles have indeed a re- The Ogles of Whiston Lancashire and their de­ ~arkabl e history; a written history, presenting scendants, The Ogles of New Castle, Del and an unbroken line for more than eight hundred their numerous descendants. •Us. They were among the oldest and proud­ To Humphry de Ogle, (born 1070) William of the old English aristocracy; being de­ the Conqueror confirmed by deed all the liber­ .. nded from the early Saxon kings and the ties and royalties of his manor of Ogle in as am­ ng!\ of England. All the data relating to the ple a manner as any of his ancestors enjoyed •<.icial and public relations of the family of Eng­ the same before the time of the Norman invas­ !&nd and America have been carefully revised ion and in the 15th of Edward III, Sir Robert u1d are historically true. Ogle had a license to fortify his Manor house of Ogle; this Sir Robert's grandson, Rob- ORIGIN OF THE HOUSE OF OGLE ert, married Ellen, daughter and heir of Sir Lineage: The name of this ancient family Robert Bertram, Knight of Botha! Castle, and n the earliest evidence is written-Oggehill, Og- brought vast possessions into the Ogle family. ~~ and Oggille, and Hogge!. It is b~lieved "(From Sir Walter Scott's history of Scotland, ~ey were the descendants of Ogg-Kmg of Vol. 242.)" ~ :. rthumbria, the son of Ida, who founded the 1417. "The war with Scotland which '·?ngdom; it being the ancient custom for the seemed for some time to languish, received oung sons to take the name of their locality, some in terest from a daring exploit of Haly- __,"""" .... ·t residence as a surname; hence the progeni- burton of Fost Castle, who surprised ';1 was ~lied Ogg of the Hill, or Ogg-hill. Castle of Wark, situated on the Tweed. Th rnong the gentry, not among the peers, with was Sir Robert Ogle who married Maud Mat.i i(c;-{> fl_ ll..JM.- q"'1~4 fU;1'1 i>-11 ) ~j-ui ·~ .i~t~L. t.H () ~~~ B~ . ~ i G\_ ~ ~ . rt-Vt.~ 0-Jlo-.London Mercantile Library.) I figures of one of the barons and his baby with vt .. ' 1739, June 6. "Died Nathaniel Ogle I of several figures about them and in one part of Kirkley in Northumberland, Esq., one of His it, a shield singularly charged with armorial de. Majesty's Justices of the Peace for that c lin­ vices. On the river's side, about three quar. [1l ty. He had been an eminent physician abr ad ters of a mile above the Castle, stood 'Our Lady's i· during the war and acted in that character at Chapel,' built by one of the Ogles as appeared by his arms fixed against it. A few years since fi:!, home, among his neighbors, in a most· charit ble :1; manner;· visiting the sick, giving advice gr tis. it was overgrown with trees which had twined His daughter not long before his death ma "ed their roots into its walls. At present it is quite 'i Sfr Chaloner Ogle, a famed British Admiral. ' demolished." ,;· r·',' i "Cansey Park, a member of the . Bothal \ 1742, April 19. "Died, in St. John's ish, in New Castle, Jane Ogle, aged 106. Barony, was the seat of a younger branch of the Ogles of Bothal Castle, from whom it descended ; retained her memory to the last." ~; to its present possessor, William Ogle and Wal­ t. 1750, April. "Died, Sir Chaloner O~le, lace Ogle. The tower of the Mansion House commander in chief of His Majesty's fleet. !He was built by John Ogle in 1582." was born at Kirkley in Northumberland. J He F was very early advanced by his personal merit 1388 :-Battle with the Scotts. "Among the prisoners were Lord Percy and his brother, rt and courage to the command of the Swallow, ~. man of war, when he took Roberts, the faro.bus Sir Lord Heron, Sir Robert Ogle, Sir John Til­ pirate, on the coast of Africa, Feb. 5, 1722. ror burn and many other valiant men of Northum­ this service Captain Ogle was knighted the y:ear berland." following, and later rose to the highest station "1419. In the absence of the King of Eng­ in the Navy, being appointed commander in land who was in France, hostilities being com­ chief of His Majesty's Fleet, on the death of menced on the borders, William Haliburton Qf Sir John Norris." Fost Castle, took the Castle of Wark, then in N. Ogle, Dean of Winchester. and C on the custody of Sir Robert Ogle, and put all the Residentiary of Sarum. Published serm . ns, garrison to the sword; but it was recovered by 1766, 1771 Salisbury." the English, who from a perfect knowledge of "George Ogle, English poetical Translatrr." the place, made their way by a sewer leading D. 1746. from the kitchen into the Tweed and surprising · Letter from Annapolis, Baltimore, jun, the garrison, put them all to death in revenge 'I,, Feb. 27, 1873. "An old seal of the State is ow for their cruelty to Ogle's troops." l preserved in the record office. It is of ax, "Lord Ogle in 1645 commanded the Castle i I of Winchester, which was besieged by Cromwell I covered on either side with paper. It has on ' one side the figure of a horse and rider, on the and at last captured by him." other the same device, now used with the exqeP­1 On the banks of the Wansbeck river, in the tion of a crown additional. It was used I in county of Northumbria, on the baronial seat of 1775, in Gov. Eden's time. There is anotper the Bertrams, are the remains of Bothal Cas­ used 1799, when Mr. Ogle was Governor; I. ~n tle (Ogle.) Near the castle on the estate on the one side is a sheaf of wheat and a ship; on ~he Wansbeck, is the Parish church. When visited other is a woman holding a pair of scales with by Rev. William Watts, (in his natural historY other devices. It is of wax covered with paper and antiquitylf of Northumberland,) in 1773, and is attached to a document."· ! was to be seen on the south side of the chancel, "Burroden, a strong old fortress, was ithe a Mural family, that from Humphry de Ogle, seat of Bertram Anderson in 1552. It is ~he Esq., did descend seven Lords and thirtY property of the Ogles of Cawsey Park, but i in Knights. This table seems to have been ruins." inscribed by direction of Cuthbert, 7th Lord Bourne. P. 118. Ogle in 1576. When a survey of the Barons populated parish. The church is anci nt. of Botha! was made by a commission by hilll Some of the Ogles are buried in its chancel it appointed, many Knights were afterwards add· was repaired and parapets and pinnacles ad ed ed to the number given. , to the tower in 1783. The village is remark bly Armorial bearings of John Ogle of Prescot neat and clean and the Rector's Mansion is ur­ Hall. rounded with tasteful pleasure grounds and ine Arms: Argent, a fess between three cre~­ trees." cent gules, on the fess, a crescent, argent fit "Ogle Castle has been nearly demolis ed. difference. The remnant of it in its small windows ith Crest: An heraldic antelope ·head erased pofoted arches demonstrated the time of its argent. Tufted, maned and horned gules. d building. It has a square double moat aro nd Motto : Prinez engri. . (Take in goo it. The Ogle family was seated here be ore will. )-Burke. the time of the Conquest. Humphrey de gle Of these bearing the name of Ogle, there had a grant of all his property from Water has been fifteen Lords Ogle-eight being Lords Fitz Williams." of Manors, seven being barons and peers of thd "On the east of the Castle is painted in realm. Eight or more have been baronets, an

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~:cl Knights there have been more than thirty. ton. Had son, second son, of Lancashire, later ·" Se\'eral have reached high rank in the British ofJ White Hall, Middlesex county; town house iii · .,mv • two at least having been General Officers, L~ndon ; ship owner and importer. · . cne ·a' Major General, another a Lieutenant Gen­ 13. John Ogle. Progenitor of· the Amer- eral In the Navy, three have attained high ic n Ogle family. Sir John descended from the ,dfstinction--0ne having been an ~~mira.l at the 0 les of Northumberland county, England. He · Cfme of his death, and two havmg gamed the landed~ in New Castle County, Delaware, in 1664. rank of Admiral of the Fleet, the highest posi­ He accompanied the Military Expedition of Col. tion in the British Navy, and held only by spec­ Rif,hard Nicolls to America. . He had from the ial act of the Sovereign. Dqke of York, brother of King· Charles II, large :.- Descent of the Ogles from Edward First grf,nts of land in the lower counties of Pennsyl- . _and Edward the Fourth. va ia, now Delaware, in the· latter part of the . _ ·~> · Through Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of 17 h century. He married Elizabeth W ollastoil ·'N'orfolk, and son of Edward the First, by his of New Castle County, Delaware. Had son. · ... : second wife, Margaret, sister of PhiJlip of 14. John Ogle. Married Elizabeth Gra- France, the Ogles are descended from Edward ham.1 Had son. the First in the manner foil owing: Margaret, . 15. John Ogle. Married Elizabeth Rlob- Countess of Norfolk, and daughter of Thomas de inson. Had son, 4th son . .Brotherton, married first, John Lord Segran, 16. Hercules Ogle was born Tuesday, April _.and with other issue had Elizabeth Segran mar­ 6, 1731, in Lancaster, now Dauphin county, \ ried to Lord Mon bray, Duke of Norfolk. In is­ Pe nsylva.nia. He died in Carroll County, Vir­ :aue of this marriage was born a daughter, Jean- gi ia, and is buried near the present town of ;:.atte, who marrying Sir Thomas Gray, Lord of ~ Hi~lsville, where many of the older members of ', Berwick and Chillingham, had, with other issue, the Ogles are buried. He was a wealthy man {adaughter, Matilda Maud, who became the wife fot those days; had much lands and owned two .- of Robert, father of the first Lord Ogle, County mills. Two of his descendants were Governors ·.Northumberland, about the time of the father's of Maryland, several were officers in the Revo­ death in 1510. Subsequently another Robert lu ionary army, and in the later war with Eng­ ·Lord Ogle, fourth baron and peer of that name, la d. One family were long the ruling spirits descended from him just named, married Ann, of west Pennsylvania politics. Another mem­ -daughter of Sir Thomas Lumby, whose wife be of the family, Capt. Joseph Ogle, with rela- was Elizabeth Plantagenet, natural daughter of ti es, colonized St. Clair county, Illinois. A -- Pidward the Fourth by the well known Elizabeth co nty of that state is named for him. Hercu- p Lucy. · les married Mary, daughter of William and Mary Generations. Descent from Edward of Carson. He was the fa~her of eleven chil- England: dren. 1. Edward 1st, 2nd marriage. Married 1. Elizabeth was born Monday, Sept. 27, Margaret, sister of Philip of France. Had son. 17 6. Died in Deep River, N. C., Thursday, 2. Thomas Brotherton. Married Alice, My 31, 1770. . daughter of Sir Roger Halys of Herivick. Had 2. Lucretia, born Tuesday, March 6, 1759~ da_ughter. Sh married Mathew Scott of Randolph Co., N. o:__ 3. · Margaret. Married John, First Lord c. . ucgcave. Had daughter. ! 3. Hannah,· born Thursday, July 17, 1761. ·. : 4. Elizabeth. Married John, Lord Mow­ She married Job Hale of Randolph Co. brey and Segrave. Duke brother died-of Nor­ I 4. Benjamin, corn Sunday, August 7, 1763. ft8olkd. Estates and titles went with female line. Hi~ first wife was Bathsheba, who when th.eir a daughter. se ond child was but eighteen months old, de- · Th 5. Genet, also spelled Jane. Married se ted husband and children. His second wife landmas Lord Gray of Horton, in Northumb~r- wT Rebecca Stilley of Frederick, Maryland. ,hLord of Berwick and Chillingham. Had 5. John died in Mecklinburg county, N. C. cla ug ter.

1 6. William married Susanna Johnson, Rob 6. Matilda, called Maud. Married Lord grand niece of Thomas Johnson, first constitu­ ert Ogle. Had son, 2nd son. tio~al Governor of Maryland. He migrated to ter 7. John Ogle. Married Margaret, daugh­ Missouri, locating in the town of Cape Girard­ SC>n.of Roger Booth of Borton Lancaster. Had ea . His wife died of tuberculosis in the fall of the same year, February 9, 1807. He fell 8. Roger Ogle of Whiston. Married Mar- in a duel with Col. Joseph McFerron. The duel ta'· daughter of William Leyland of Morley. wa fought on an island in the Mississippi : . son .. ri r, now washed away. He left an infant ;·~ 9. John Ogle. Married Annie Thornbour- da ghter, Mary, whose adoption into the fam- et~ daughter and co-heir of Rowland, young- ily of his uncle, Alexander Ogle, of Kentucky, 21id n of Wm. Thornbourough, Esq. Had son, ha been arranged previous to the duel. She ,; son. mairried a man by the name of Peacock and \'VatdlO. Thomas Ogle. Married Catherine les 1 than ten years ago was living in the town on. Had son. of Carrollton, Ky. lP.y lllI. Joseph· Ogle. Married Elizabeth Berk- 7. Mary, married Abraham Stroud, of . ad son.. Of Lancashire. phin county, Pennsylvania. 12. Thomas Ogle. Married Annie Ash- 8. .James. No other data given. ,,

PAO~: EIGHT THE AMERICAN Rl:DGISTEa 9. Naomi married Paul Beck of Gray~on and given to hospitality. On occasions of so.

county, Virginia. j cial functions at his home, it was his wish to . ~O: Hercules, born in Mo~tgo~ery couity, have bidden all acquaintances far and near no Virgm1a, Feb.- 27, 1779. Died m Hoc "ng distinction being made between the well to' do county, Ohio, April 24, 1870. or those less fortunate. He never turned a deaf ear to the hungry way-farer, always giv.. , 11. Hiram, was born in Franklin cou;ty~ Virginia, Aug. 6, 1781. He married Sa ah ing food and lodging to such ; "his latch-string daughter of John· and Letitia Morgan Rich rd~ was always out. Mr. Ogle had legal ability son of Grayson county, Virginia: He died ear which in several instances during his life he had Vevay, Indiana, April 25, 1845. Nearly all he occasion to prove, when upon becoming defend. children of Hercules moved west and no h, ant in suits of law, he would plead hfa own thence in~o Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia nd case. Judge Lamb of Vevay said he was a fine Alabama, and later to the south and to the far pleader and in almost every instance he won west~ Hiram, accompanied by his brot er, his suit. Judge Scott. Carter recounting these Hercules, migrated to Mercer county, Penn yl­ incidents, in later years, said, if Mr.· Ogle had vania, in 1801, later to Columbiana county, 0 io, been a closer student of -the law, he would have been a lawyer above the average of his time~ L. and in 1812 came to Switzerland county, I di­ It is known that Mr. Ogle's father, Hercules, l•. .• ana. He left Ohio with two boats, in one of which were the· family; the other contained ive gave to each of his children a fair education and stock. His destination was Leavenworth, I di­ the freedom to choose an occupation; his son, ana. He stopped at Vevay and was much pl as­ Hercules, was one of the finest engravers in the ed with the Indian Creek section, but ha ing United Staes. In 1815, the court appointed friends who had settled at Leavenworth, ho Elisha Golay as agent to let the contract for were much pleased with the locality, he thou ht building Vevay's first jail, which contract was jt advisable to see for himself before decidin on given Mr. Ogle. It was one story, built of a location for. a home. When he reached ef­ hewed logs one foot square; he received one hun­ fersonville, then but a small village, he fo nd dred dollars for the work. Mr. Ogle died April the falls too low to make the crossing a afe 28, 1845. His wife, Sarah, died January 23, venture, so decided to await a rise in the ri er. 1856. . They were the parents of ten children, As his stock, consisting of sheep, cattle nd Mary, Eli, Milo, Achilles, William, Elizabeth, horses were in cramped quarters on the boat he Eliza, Almira, Hiram, Sarah. · turned them loose on the commons. A ew Mary Ogle married David Todd. To them nights later the sheep disappeared, either ~ol­ were born eight children, Hiram, Dr. Simeon, en, or strayed a way. Only a few days after­ Owen, Elhanan, Sarah, Catherine, Marion. w~rds, his horses were missing, but after .ev­ Eli Ogle married Hannah of Cin· cinnati, Ohio. He died childless. ,,., . eral days' search, they were found back on 1Sil­ ve~ creek. The river continuing low, Mr. Qgle Milo Ogle died in young manhood. ~ecided to dispose of his boats and household Achilles Ogle married Charlotte Bakes. g?ods and make a bee line 8:cross country for! In­ They had eight children, Elizabeth, Eli, Louisa, dian Creek. Mrs. Ogle, with the baby in !her Albert, Sarah, Eliza, Clara, Mary Ann, Lottie. ~nns, ·rode one of the horses, two of the o~er Elizabeth Ogle married John Bakes. TbeY ch!ldr:en the other, while Mr. Ogle and the e der had eight children, Almira, Albert, John, Hiram, child walked. Thus was displayed the s irit Eliza, Jane, Robert, Frederick; one son died in of true pioneer. This was probably during the infancy. month of September, 1812, as at places w ere Eliza Ogle married Thomas Freeman. TbeY they stopped for water, the sole talk of the had ten children, Sarah, John, Elizabeth, people was concerning the Pigeon Roost as­ Charles, Ida, Eliza, Thomas, Ramey ; two died· in sacre which event occurred September 3, 18 2. infancy. Upon arnvmg at Indian Creek, Mr. gle Almira Ogle died, aged fifteen· years. purchased considerable lands there and buil a Hiram Ogle married Charlotte Tagne. TheY house of hewed logs. A few years later he had ten children, Mary, Milo, Lottie, Sarah, owned about one thousand acres of land. He Josephine, Hiram, Frederick, Grace, Thomas, owned and operated a saw mill, and a bl ck­ Inez Elizabeth. smith shop. He owned the first wagon bro ht William Ogle died at" the age of two years· into Switzerland county ; consequently he rec iv­ Sarah Ogle married John Golay. They had ed many calls for hauling and moving famil,es; eight children, Almira, Sarah, Emma, Flora, among others he moved his brother and family David, Bessie, Donophine; one died in infancY· to· Illinois; at another time he moved a Mr. Ben­ The four Ogles following are the descend· net· and family to where Versailles now sta*ds. ants of John Ogle, the immigrant, who callle As he drove through the then dense forest, cpm­ from England to New Castle county, Delaware, ing alongside a monster fallen tree, Mr. B:iet in 1664. signaled Mr. Ogle to draw rein, saying, " · ht 1. John, his eldest son, married Elizabeth here by the side of this big log is where we i:.ill Graham. live until I can build a house." And thus, u.vir. 2. Edward Ogle, son of Thomas, married Bennet was the first settler of Versailles. Mr. Margaret Howard of Maryland, June 16, 1748. Ogle was of splendid physique, he was a lilttle 3. William Ogle, son of Edward, born 1749· over six feet in height and weighed two llur!­ Married, first, Sarah Logue ; second wife, Sarah dred pounds; he was of a genial tempera1ent Weiser, niece of Conrad Weiser, the Scout. .... "'- ;...~ ·_ - ~-- .

.. fsE AMERICAN REGISTER PAGE NINE Thomas Ogle of Dauphin county, Pennsyl­ Elizabeth, Eli, . Louise, Albert, Sarah, Eliza, fania, married Jane Miller. Had seven chil­ dlara, Anna and Lottie. dfe!l, Margaret, Sarah, Robert, Alexander*, I Elizabeth, born Dec. 9, 1833. ~iarried Jtllle, Mary, Agnes. . dwen W. Todd, an instructor in the Indiana - *Alexander adopted Mary, daughter of s~hools. She had six children-Jennie~ Einily, William Ogle who fell in a duel, Feb. 9, 1807. Wilmer, Edgar; ~ida, Lottie. She died near ljleasant Hill, Mo., Dec. 19, 1870. .,.~ ACHILLES OGLE, Vevay's First Mail Carrier rL.L Eli Ogle, born April 2, 1835, married Maria Achilles Ogle was born in Mercer county, "'f'"ton. He had two ·children, Har_ry and Em­ Pennsylvania, Nov. 23, 1809~ He was the lljla. In 1862, he was elected "treasurer of Swit­ . fourth in a family of eleven children. In 1812, ~~rland county, and re-elected for a second· . he came with his father's family from Ohio to t~rm. · In 1876 he filled the unexpired term of· Switzerland county, Indiana. His boyhood was a. J. Rabenstein. He was a dealer in lumber, l spent amid scenes and experiences such as are buying extensively in both north and south. common to pioneer life. In 1819, his father He died Feb. 2, 1898. . . contracted for carrying the U. S. mail and gave ~ L Louise H. Ogle was born Dec. 22, 1837: · to his son Achilles the undesirable task. It seems IVJarried Aug. 16, 1854, to John W. Sigmon~ increditable that a father would put on his son Ohildren: Albert, Ella, ·Clara, _Edwin-the last. then but ten years of age and undersized, a task is a physician. She died at her home in New involving many hardships ; one almost any man Albany, Ind., Sept. 10, 1916. · would have refused. But the day had not then I Albert Ogle was born April 10, 1839. Mar-. dawned when the parent, partaking of the hard rfed April 6, 1864, to Mary J. Cotton. Children_: unpalatable crust, reserved for the child the .soft Uaura, Albert, Robert, Bessie. Two died in in­ white inner portion of the loaf ; for the maxim f+.ncy. His early days were spent on a farm. of the average pioneer for building staunch and In his boyhood days he enjoyed the advantages enduring character, was to inure the young to stch as the country schools afforded. At the hardships. The little boy's first route was a e of eighteen years he attended a select school from Vevay to Versailles. At the expiration i Vevay and in 1858, he entered Franklin Col­ of the year, he was given another, beginning at lege. In 1863, he enlisted as a soldier in the Vevay and ending at Frankfort, Ky. This ~vil War. In 1865, he entered the Theological route continued for two years, when another Spminary at Upper Alton, Ill., where he com..; .. change was made, from Vevay to Georgetown, Pjeted his work, and became pastor of the Bap­ Ky.; then another from Louisville to Cincinnati, tist Church at Mitchell, Ind. He was pastor of but for what length of time, is not definitely tile Seymour church for the period of fourteen known. The entire service covered a period of years. He has been active in ministerial ser-. nine years. ·The roads were but indistinct vice until of recent years. At. this date, Au-.- · · trails through dense forests. There were no gilst, 1926, he is living at 973 Woodruff Place, bridges between any of the points mentioned, Indianapolis,. Ind., aged eighty-seven years, with except Hogan, Laughery, and the Big Miama. b~dy enfeebled, but with a bright and active ~cross streams not bridged, when swollen by 111ind. His only living son is a physician. ,, ~eavy rains, his horse was forced to swim. I Sarah R. Ogle was born May 1, 1841. She .: In seasons of extreme cold, or when storms ~arried Enoch W. Protsman, a farmer, Jan.. 10, l!tteatened, his mother, to insure his safety, 1~58. Children : Curtis, Elmer E., Anna,· ~ed him to the saddle; many times as the little qarence, Achilles, Louise. Two sons are Bap- · . ~ow, relieved of responsibility, and overcome tif t ministers. · u¥ fatigue fell asleep to be aroused ·when his Eliza F. Ogle was born March 15, 1843. faithful steed came to a stand at the farm-yard She married Rev. John Craft, Dec. 20, 1865. late of his father's home. Children : Nettie, Clara, Edith. Nettie is -~ On January 23, 1833, he was united in mar­ a~graduate of Franklin College and Principle of· ·r:_ ge to Charlotte, daughter of Robert and F anklin High School. Clara is the wife of a ·

&40Du.uise H. (Golay) Bakes. She was born in B ptist minister. Edith married a lawyer of chess ~aunty, New York, March 13, 1812. I dianapolis. ~ father was a native of England ; he was 7. Clara Ogle was born April 25, 1845. uvrn Nov. 5, 1780. Her mother was born in She possessed a bright mind and excelled in ~d ce in the year 1778, and died in Switzer- m~thema tics. She was married to Charles 141l county, Indiana, October 27, 1828. Mr. Protsman, Dec. 20, 1865. Children: Nettie; . ·,~le was a good man in all the relations of life, Ltda. She lives in Ontario, Cal., "with her eld- ·.. onest, conscientious and true. He possessed eSt daughter. · · · - remarkable memory. His Christian character 8. Anna Ogle was born Aug. 1, 1847. All ·~·, te unpretentious, but of a positive and decided o the children of Achilles Ogle possessed to a 'J&t--~ He died December 15, 1890, four years m rked degree the beautiful gift of song and as ·:ch~ than the death of his most estimable wife, tney~ thought, Anna had a special love and ap- · ·ce arlotte. They lie side by side in the ye':'ay pf.ciation for music, they gave her · musical . tn'etery. To have been born of Christian i truction. Very early in life it was discover- ; fbten~s, is a heritage, more to be desired than e she had the gift for writing verse. Through- dae gift of the gold and silver of the world. To- o t her life she has made use of her talent, aJ ,,"their children rise up and call them hies- p rtly for her own, but more for the pleasure . To them were born nine children- o others. She was married August 26, 1868, - . PAGE TE~ THE AMERICAN RlllGISTJta to James C. Kirkpatrick. He was one of the vice in the World War and died of pneumonia, country's best known and highly esteemed eit- at the age of twenty-two years,· Oct. 3, 1918, in izens. When but thirteen years old, not h v- Camp Humphrey, Va. He was an estimable ing a home, he went west to make his way in young man. In less than a year, Catherine, the world. When President Lincoln cal ed age thirteen, fell asleep to awaken in a brighter for volunteers in 1861, he enlisted as a priv te and happier world than this. Marie, who is a but by his efficiency and bravery he rose to he stenographer, lives to cheer them in the borne. rank of 1st Lieutenant, then to that of Capt in. . Anna Grace Kirkpatrick married Joseph He .took part in the battles of Pittsburg, Sh lo, Lamson, April 19, 1898. He is a successful Franklin, Mobile Bay and many other h rd farmer, owns a fine farm on which they live on fights. He was under Generals Grant and the. Ohio river. A son, Joseph, died in infancy. Thomas. His company belonged to· the ~a- . Mabel Kirkpatrick, the youngest daughter, mous Sixth Corps, which was never whipp . and her mother are living in the home two miles He was a· member of the Masonic Lodge. e below the town of Vevay, a picturesque spot. was a true, devout and unassuming Christi n, 9. Lottie Ogle, youngest child of Achilles and loved by all who knew him. He died at his Ogle, married William H. Scott, April 22, 1889. ~ home near Vevay, Dec. 13, 1917. , Mr. Scott was a farmer. He died Nov. 27, 1917. ~- Their children: Kate Stow, Anna Grt'ce, She is of small stature but has a large heart, her 1,

Mabel Alberta. Kate Kirkpatrick married J hn first thought being for the comfort and happi- t'._.l·..· W. Stewart, Oct. 13, 1882. · ness of others; she lives in Vevay, Ind. Children: Marie Elizabeth, Charles W - Achilla Ogle has 35 grand children, . 62 ren, Anna Catherine. To their happy home great granchildren, and 67 great, great grand- came a great sorrow. Warren enliste~f_o_r_s...,.r_r_-_c_h_il_d_re_n. Fort Marion fnd St. Augustine By Jo n L. Shawver NE of the most interesting places in Am r- Spanish, but again plundered in 1665 by the , ica that one can visit is the quaint old city heartless pirate, John Davis. It was then de- of0 St. Augustine, Florida. It not only presents' cided to change the original plans and make many things that are not duplicated elsewlre the place impregnable. Slaves were brought in America but it has historical interest t at from Africa and captured Indians were used in the student will find of great value. .en the construction work for sixty years. Later, the doc~rs sent me to the south to escape !he convicts were brought from Mexico in great rigors of the Ohio winters it seemed to pres nt numbers and the construction went on more a way to visit this oldest of American cities rapidly. During this long period of recon- The first place that claimed my inter st struction the place was known as San Marco. was the city library where I went in search of One hundred and ninety-five years were re­ information that seemed difficult to find else- quired to complete the structure. where and, fortunately, with the aid of the~'li.. The walls are con~tructed of dressed co­ brarian, the books which contained the I g quina rock quarried on the island of Anatasia, sought information were placed before me d near by. The old quaries are still worked and so interested did I become that the noon ay the rock being of shell formation are especially meal was forgotten. Later, with the ot er effective in withstanding bombardment. members of the party, we visited the oldest Though the actual work of construction was house in America, and the most narrow stiet done by unpaid labor, the men must be fed and in the world. If I remember correctly, t is clothed, and the guards paid, fed and clothed, street is less than six feet wide at one end d so that the actual cost in money to the Spanish less than five feet wide at the other. It is ell government was $30,000,000. Governor Ogle-. 1 paved and fills a great need in offering c~- thorpe attached the city in 17 40, and all the ·in­ munication between two other streets. He e, habitants of the place, some 2100 people, took it is in constant use and saves people thousa ds refuge in the fort. It remained unharmed af­ .. of steps. The open air post office, the Id ter twenty-eight days of assault by .the most :·'"! well, the old park, the old city wall and ga es effective cannon then available. with the sentry boxes, were all of interest. But In 1763 the British secured the territorY one of the things that claimed most interesi is but it was later returned to Spain. The· Unit­ the old fort. The first effort to make it s fe ed States purchased the entire peninsula in to.live in this place was in the year 1565, w en 1821, and the name of the Fort was changed the castle, San Juan de Pinas, was construe ed to Fort Marion in honor of that spirited and for protection against the French, the Brit sh successful commander of revolutionary armies, and the native Indians. The first struct re General Francis Marion. was made of pine logs and earth. The to n When the Americans attempted to curb was raided and plundered in 1586 by Sir Fr n- the hatred and militant spirits of the Seminole r cis Drake, and the old fort was very nearly Indians, it was in one of the apartments of this f stroyed. It was at once reconstructed by e old fort that Osceola was imprisoned with two j