Hiram OGDEN

1830 - 1920  (90 years)

• Name	Hiram OGDEN
  Born	24 Jan 1830	Savannah, OH   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	EE332CF78AFE4855A9C5413909B961A91D07
  Died	12 Mar 1920	Glendale, CA   [1]
  	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
  Buried	Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co. CA
  	Grave location, tombstone photo, and biography: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64415354&ref=acom
  Notes	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 [1]
  Person ID	I725	Master File
  Last Modified	23 May 2015

  
  

  Father	Willilam OGDEN
  Mother	Mary CROWELL
  Family ID	F1677	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mariah (Maria) WHITEAKER,   b. 16 Nov 1840, Lee Co. IL ,   d. 23 Feb 1904, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co. CA  (Age 63 years)
  Married	1 Oct 1857	Dallas, Polk Co. OR   [1]
  	https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/personprofile.do?recordNumber=59901
  Children	1. Viola Jane OGDEN,   b. 3 Dec 1858, Polk Co. OR ,   d. 26 Jan 1867, OR Territory  (Age 8 years)   2. William Henry OGDEN,   b. 1 Oct 1860, OR Territory ,   d. 9 Feb 1867, OR Territory  (Age 6 years)   3. Evvy OGDEN,   b. 29 Dec 1863, OR Territory ,   d. 29 Sep 1868, OR Territory  (Age 4 years)   4. Fred OGDEN,   b. 8 Oct 1865, OR Territory ,   d. 24 Oct 1868, OR Territory  (Age 3 years)   5. Mary OGDEN,   b. 7 Jan 1868, Waitsburg, WA Territory ,   d. 23 Oct 1936, Los Angeles Co. CA  (Age 68 years)   6. Grace Ramona OGDEN,   b. 22 Oct 1870, Minnesota ,   d. 22 Jan 1922, Los Angeles Co. CA  (Age 51 years)
  Last Modified	19 Apr 2015
  Family ID	F680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S25] Descendants of Richard Whitaker, Jr. and Rachel Bentley, Joye Boardman.