Hiram OGDEN

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CENSUS RECORDS

1860 Census
Name: Hiram Ogdon
Age in 1860: 28
Birth Year: abt 1832
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1860: Independence, Polk, Oregon
Gender: Male
Post Office: Independence
Household Members:
Hiram Ogdon 28
Mira Ogdon 19
B F Ogdon 1

1880 Census
Name: Hiram Ogden
Age: 49
Birth Year: abt 1831
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1880: San Antonio, Los Angeles, California
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Maria Ogden
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Occupation: Farmer
Household Members:
Hiram Ogden 49
Maria Ogden 39
Mary Ogden 12
Gracie Ogden 10

1900 Census
Name: Hiram Ogden
Age: 70
Birth Date: Jan 1830
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1900: La Canada, Los Angeles, California
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Maria Ogden
Marriage Year: 1857
Years Married: 43
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Household Members:
Hiram Ogden 70
Maria Ogden 59
Mary O Ryan 32
Grace E Ryan 6

1910 Census
Name: Hiram Ogden
Age in 1910: 80
Birth Year: abt 1830
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1910: Burbank, Los Angeles, California
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Household Members:
Hiram Ogden 80
Mary O Ryan 42
Evelyn Ryan 16

1920 Census
Name: Hiram Ogden
Age: 89
Birth Year: abt 1831
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1920: Glendale, Los Angeles, California
Street: Harvard St
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Father
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Able to Speak English: Yes
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members:
Mary O Ryan 51
Hiram Ogden 89

OBITUARY

The Glendale Evening News; 12 March 1920

Hiram Ogden Passes
Dies in 91st Year After Busy and Useful Life

Hiram Ogden passed to his reward this morning at 3 o'clock as one who simply falls asleep. he had been suffering several weeks with bronchial pneumonia and his daughter, Mrs. Mary Ogden Ryan, with who he lived, had very little hope from the first. Funeral services which will be in charge of the Masonic Order, of which he was a member for nearly 50 years, will be arranged for later.

Hiram Ogden was born in northern Ohio on January 24,1830 and was one of 14 children. In 1850 the family moved to Iowa, settling near Keokuk. His parents both died soon afterward, and in 1851 he joined a large party crossing the plains and mountins to Portland, Oregon, he driving one of the teams. The journey took six months and was quite uneventful, though several members of the party died of cholera. wagon trains preceding and following the one he was with were attacked by Indians and lost some of their member, but his escaped.

Mr. Ogden settled in the Williamette Valley and for a few years served on and off as a volunteer in the Indian Wars of the Northwest. In 1857 he married Miss Maria Whitaker, who had come across nine years before when she was eight years of age. they soon afterwards moved to a farm near Walla Walla, Wash., where their six children were born and four of them died.

They moved to Minnesota in 1870, but stayed only 5 years, coming out to Los Angeles in 1875, and settling on a 20 acre fruit ranch south of the city, though now it is many city blocks comprising the corners of Central and Vernon Avenues. Several years later he sold this ranch and bought several lots at corner of Seventh and Grand Avenue, where there now stands a mammoth store building. He built a home there and the family lived in it several years. The next move was to a ranch near Burbank, but when hi wife died in 1905, he decided to spend the remaining of his days in Glendale with a daughter, Mrs. Mary Ogden Ryan. She is now living at 419 East Harvard.

Mr. Ogden had one brother living in Batavia, Ia. He is also survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ryan and Mrs. Grace Tilden, the latter now living in Long Beach; four grand-daughters, Mrs. C. E. Hyde of San Francisco, daughter of Mrs Ryan, and Mrs. Horace Eaton of San Francisco, Mrs. R. E. Myers of Bakersfield and Miss Dorothy Tilden of Long Beach, daughters of Mrs Tilden; also one great-grandchild, Miss June Myers of Bakersfield. He was a member of the Lutheran Church.

HISTORICAL RECORDS

Hiram Ogden's Description of the Trip across the Plains (2700 Miles): In the Spring of 1852 several neighboring families in Fairfield-Jefferson County, Iowa, decided to go to Oregon where they could take up large tracts of land. Reports had come that wheat would grow well in Oregon.  I signed with a Mr. Bierly.  I was to go without wages but had doctor's bills paid and care if sick.  The Bierly outfit consisted of three wagons, ten oxen to each wagon, one team of horses and one yoke of cows.  I drove the provision wagon until provisions became low and the wagon was abandoned.
 
I drove the oxen by word and walked most of the way, preferring it to the extremely rough roads. It is remarkable that in all that trip we lost only one ox which got poisoned water at a spring.  The trail was all described in a guide book, however it failed to mention the poison spring near Fort Hall.

The train started April 27, 1852, crossed the Missouri River at Council Bluffs to where Omaha now is, followed up the Platte River to Fort Laramie, then to Black Hills, South Dakota, then west to Howes Fork of Bear River to the forks where the Oregon people took the right fork and the California people traveled up the left fork.

Each train had a doctor, ours being Dr. Reeves.  There was a lot of sickness with an epidemic of Cholera on the Platte River.  I was sick for two weeks and rode on a feather bed in a spring wagon.  Many graves along the way gave mute evidence of the tragedies that befell these Pioneers.  One of the women in the party took sick in the evening and was buried by midnight.

We did not travel many days continuously as the oxen could not stand it. Whenever a place was found with good feed we stayed several days to fatten the stock and rest them. The wagons were all placed in a circle at night and after the stock grazed they were put inside the circle with guards.  This was done to prevent Indians from stealing them and also to prevent a stampede if a herd of buffalo came racing by.
 
At the Cascade Locks on the Columbia River everything was put on boats and taken to Portland, where we arrived six months to the day from the time we started in Iowa.

Hiram left Oregon and was an early pioneer to Southern California and lived there until his death on March 12, 1920 in Glendale, CA.  He was 90 years old

Early Oregonian Search

Ogden, Hiram
Date of Birth 1832
Place of Birth OH
Occupation blacksmith

Marriage Information
Whiteaker, Maria 1 Oct 1857 Polk Co., OR

Associated Persons
Whiteaker, Maria DOB 16 Nov 1840 Spouse

Census Events
1860 Federal OR Polk Co. 619 28yrs


Buried:
Grave location, tombstone photo, and biography:
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Died:
California, Death Index, 1905-1939
Name: Hiram Ogden
Birth Year: abt 1830
Death Date: 12 Mar 1920
Age at Death: 90
Death Place: Los Angeles, California

Hiram married Mariah (Maria) WHITEAKER 1 Oct 1857, Dallas, Polk Co. OR. Mariah (daughter of Benjamin WHITEAKER and Mary (Polly) HAYTER) was born 16 Nov 1840, Lee Co. IL; died 23 Feb 1904, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co. CA; was buried , Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co. CA. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/personprofile.do?recordNumber=59901

1. Viola Jane OGDEN was born 3 Dec 1858, Polk Co. OR; died 26 Jan 1867, OR Territory.
2. William Henry OGDEN was born 1 Oct 1860, OR Territory; died 9 Feb 1867, OR Territory.
3. Evvy OGDEN was born 29 Dec 1863, OR Territory; died 29 Sep 1868, OR Territory.
4. Fred OGDEN was born 8 Oct 1865, OR Territory; died 24 Oct 1868, OR Territory.
5. Mary OGDEN was born 7 Jan 1868, Waitsburg, WA Territory; died 23 Oct 1936, Los Angeles Co. CA.
6. Grace Ramona OGDEN was born 22 Oct 1870, Minnesota; died 22 Jan 1922, Los Angeles Co. CA.

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Willilam married Mary CROWELL. [Group Sheet]

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