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(XII) Isaac, youngest child of Benjamin (3) and Charity (Ogden) Ogden, was born in Elizabethtown, April 18, 1818, died in Newark, New Jersey, July 9, 1889. He was a manu- facturer ot vitrified glazed drain tiles and the founder of the firm of Isaac Ogden & Son, which up to 1895 was carried on by his chil- dren. Both he and his wife are buried in Evergreen cemetery, Elizabeth. April 8, 1842, he married Martha Wayne, born December 20, 1821, died May 29, 1887, daughter of Robert and Jane (Parsell) Atchison, and they had four children: I. Isaac Langworthy, born May 8, 1843, died September 29, 1843. 2. Henry Ellis, referred to below. 3. William Lillie, October 26, 1848; married (first) Mary Florence Soper and (second) Harriet A. Budd. 4. Jane Atchison, July 20, 1854, died unmar- ried March 8, 1870.
(XIII) Henry Ellis, second child and son of Isaac and Martha Wayne (Atchison) Ogden, was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, August 23, 1845, and is now living at 13 Hill- side avenue, Newark, New Jersey. His in- fancy was spent in Elizabeth, and for his early education he was sent to the public schools and to the Newark high school. In 1861 he found clerical work in a dry goods store where he remained for eight years, and then went into the real estate business in Elizabeth which he continued until 1873, when he entered his father's establishment in Newark. He remain-
ed up to 1895, and has since conducted a masons' material business in Newark. Mr. Ogden is a Republican. He attends the First Reformed Church of Newark and has been for eighteen years the secretary and treasurer of the Presbyterian Union of the Presbytery of Newark.
May 28, 1867, Henry Ellis Ogden married Ella Elizabeth Carter, of Newark, born in Morristown, New Jersey, August 28, 1847, daughter of George L. and Eliza (Bird) Car- ter. Children: I. Grace Martha, born July 9, 1868, died May 5, 1877. 2. Nellie Eliza, born June 17, 1871, married Irving W. Will- iams (see Williams). 3. Isaac Henry, March 29, 1878 ; he has been employed for many years and is assistant manager in the mailing depart- ment of the Prudential Insurance Company ; married Marie Sneider, and has one child, Roberta, born April 13, 1904. 4. George Car- ter, November 26, 1880; married Charlotte Vesey, born May 28, 1882, and has two chil- dren : Carter, born July 19, 1907, and Jack Kenneth, born June 27, 1909.
(For English ancestry see Robert Ogden 1).
David Ogden, son of John
OGDEN Ogden, was born in England, April 1, 1655, died in Middle- town, Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1705. He was one of the passengers in the "Welcome," took up his residence in Philadel- phia, and presented his certificate from Lon- don to the Shackamaxon Monthly Meeting when he applied to proceed in marriage. He next took up a two hundred acre tract in Middletown, then in Chester county, now in Delaware county, where he built his homestead on or near the Edgemont Great road, laid out in 1687. David Ogden had two sisters, both of whom came to Pennsylvania. Hannah, who probably lived with or near her brother and married Robert, son of John and Elizabeth (Songhurst) Barber, and died a widow with- out issue, and Sarah, married Isaac Williams. lived apparently in Philadelphia, and had a son Isaac who married and had two daughters, Rachel and Hannah.
March 12, 1686, David Ogden married Mar- tha, daughter of John and Ann Houlston, of Chester county, who married ( second) at Mid- dletown Meeting in 1710, James Thomas, and resided in Whiteland, Pennsylvania. Her father had located the next farm but one to David Ogden, and her three sisters passed meeting on the same day and were married, Sarah, to Peter, a direct ancestor of President Zachary
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Taylor ; Elizabeth to James Swafford ; and Re- becca to William Gregory. She also had a brother John. Her father was probably the John Houlston mentioned by Besse as having been February 5, 1660, sentenced in Wales to fifteen years imprisonment for refusing to take the oath of allegiance. Children of David and Martha (Houlston) Ogden: I. Jonathan, born April 19, 1687, died June, 1727; mar- ried Ann Robinson. 2. Martha, July 23, 1689, living in 1720. 3. Sarah, November 3, 1691, married (first) Evan Howell, and (second ) William Surman. 4. Nehemiah, December 15, 1693, died June 14, 1781. 5. Samuel, Decem- ber 30, 1695, died January 14, 1748; married Esther Lownes. 6. John, July 4, 1698, died April 6, 1742 ; married (first) Hannah Davis, and (second) Hannah Owen. 7. Aaron, May 31, 1700. 8. Hannah, August 22, 1702, living in 1720. 9. Stephen, referred to below.
(II) Stephen, youngest child of David and Martha (Houlston) Ogden, was born in Mid- dletown, Chester county, Pennsylvania, Janu- ary 12, 1705, died in Springfield, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1760. He married Hannah, born April 5, 1722, died October 10, 1783, daughter of William Surman, of Worcester, England, and Mary Barnes, of the parish of Whittington, county Worcester, who were married December 16, 1720. Children of Ste- phen and Hannah (Surman) Ogden: I. Nehe- miah, born April 12, 1744, died October 28, 1752. 2. John, December 31, 1746, died May 23, 1825 ; married Sarah Crozer. 3. Stephen, September 8, 1748, died October 13, 1776. 4. Mary, October II, 1750, died September 5, 1809; married Edward Horne. 5. Hannah, August 21, 1752, died April 17, 1822 ; married Philip Bonsall. 6. Aaron, referred to below. 7. Martha, October 20, 1756, died without issue ; married (first) James Arnold, of Glou- cester county, New Jersey, (second) Thomas Laycock, of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, a widower, and (third) another widower, John Humphrey. 8. Jonathan. 9. Abigail, Octo- ber 27. 1760, died June 15. 1842; married (first) Seth Pancoast, and (second) Israel Roberts.
(III) Aaron, sixth child and fourth son of Stephen and Hannah (Surman) Ogden, was born July 9, 1754. He married Esther Pres- ton : children : I. Rebecca, born January 19, 1775, died September 9, 1829 ; married George Malin. 2. Stephen, April 18, 1777, died 1846; married Hannah Bartram. 3. Amar, Febru- ary 22, 1779, died October 4, 1780. 4. Joseph, referred to below. 5. Rachel, March 8, 1782,
died June 15, 1869; married Abner Malin. 6. Preston, September 22, 1783, died October, 1784. 7. Martha, April 11, 1785; married in Christ Church, Philadelphia, John Archer. 8. Hannah, November 22, 1787, died January, 1788.
(IV) Joseph, fourth child and third son of Aaron and Esther (Preston) Ogden, was born September 9, 1780, died January 20, 1826. He was a cabinet maker in Newark, Delaware, an agriculturist and a strict Methodist class-leader, and other members of his family were strict members of the Methodist church, their de- scendants being of the same religious persua- sion. Joseph was one of the contractors in the building of the Delaware and Chesapeake canal and was employed upon it when he died. He married Lucretia Gorman, who died Janu- ary 25. 1826 ; children: I. Esther, born April 5, 1805, died August 19, 1863 ; married (first) Richard Hodges, (second) Lewis H. Ford, (third ) John Long. 2. Martha, twin with Esther, died January 3, 1875 ; married Abra- ham Martine. 3. Aaron, December 26, 1806, died July 17, 1859; married (first) Elizabeth Morris, (second) Eliza, daughter of Abner and Rachel (Ogden) Malin, (third) some one in the west. 4. Sidney Ann, January 26, 1809 . married (first) a Mr. Gordon, (second) John Perkins. 5. Amer, April 2, 1811, died June 28, 1886 ; married Rebecca Wood. 6. Hannah Bentley, March 20, 1813; married George Washington Toppin. 7. Rebecca, April 23, 1815, died October 20, 1890; married Isaac Taylor, of Chester, Pennsylvania, and died without issue. 8. Anning Asbury, April 24, 1817, died May 4, 1894 : married Sarah Nitzel Lincoln. 9. Torbert, April 16, 1819, died 1855 or 1856. 10. Sarah Smith, April 23, 1821, died November 22, 1891; married Joseph Lock- wood. II. Joseph Richard, referred to below.
(V) Joseph Richard, youngest child of Jo- seph and Lucretia (Gorman) Ogden, was born April 1, 1823, died July 31, 1860. He was a nail-cutter and lived in Fairfield, opposite Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. January 21, 1847, he married Eliza Ann, daughter of Samuel Keller, by whom he had one child Norman Preston, referred to below. Eliza Ann ( Keller ) Ogden's mother was Eliza Reckett, of Phila- delphia.
(VI) Norman Preston, only child of Joseph Richard and Eliza Ann (Keller) Ogden, was born in Fairview, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1848, and lives in Atlanta, Delaware. He is a carpenter. In 1867 he married Margaret Twigg, daughter of John and Margaret
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(Twigg) Brown, of Scotland. Their children are: I. John Brown, born June 10, 1868, died May 16, 1869. 2. Eliza Ann, April 2, 1870; married Charles, son of Matthias and Caroline C. (Mayer) Kappenstein, of Wuertemburg. Germany ; resides in Philadelphia, and has two children : Margaret Brown, born August 7, 1891, and Charles Gilbert, February 11, 1894 3. Joseph Richard, referred to below. 4. Alex- ander Twigg, born June 26, 1875. 5. Norman Preston, February 27, 1878. 6. Jasper Dewie, December 3, 1880. 7. James Frederic, Janu- ary 27, 1884. 8. John Alexander, February 26, 1887, died March 3, 1887. 9. Charles Kap- penstein, March 15, 1888, died July 14, 1888. IO. George Henry, May 22, 1889. II. Mar- garet Brown, May 15, 1891, died July 22, 1891. 12. Martin Samuel, December 2, 1893.
(VII) Joseph Richard (2), third child and second son, the eldest son to reach maturity of Norman Preston
and Margaret Twigg (Brown) Ogden, was born in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, October 4, 1872, and is now living at Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was educated in the private schools of Philadelphia, and under private tutors, studied architecture and then became a practical builder. In 1900 he opened an office in Atlantic City as an archi- tect, and since that time he has built quite a number of private and public buildings. He is now engaged on plans for a large grammar school in Atlantic City. He is a Republican and attends the Presbyterian church. He is a member of Belcher Lodge, No. 180, Free and Accepted Masons, Atlantic City. He has also taken the consistory degrees in masonry.
November 14, 1899, Joseph Richard Ogden married May, born October 22, 1872, daughter of the Rev. John B. McCorkell, a Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia. They have had three children: I. A child that died in infancy. 2. Bertha May, born May 25, 1902. 3. Joseph Richard, Jr., May 27, 1905. Mrs. Ogden is a helpmeet to her husband in every sense of the word, being actively engaged with him in his office, in formulating and planning archi- tectural designs.
WRIGHT The birthplace of Yale Col- lege and the first sixteen years of its infant life was in the neighborhood of Saybrook and Westbrook and immediately in that part of Killingworth now known as Clinton. Its birth year was 1700, its first charter 1701, and its sponsors the ten principal ministers of the Colony of Connecti- cut, who each contributed a gift of books. In
1716 it was removed to New Haven and in its second charter, granted in 1745, it was named Yale in consideration of a gift of five hundred pounds in money and as many books. The catalogue of the early graduates of Yale gives us the names of Ebenezer Wright, a minister of the gospel, graduated in 1724, and Job Wright, also a minister of the gospel, in 1757. The third and fourth of the name are William Wright, graduated in 1774, and David, in 1777, sons of David and Elizabeth (Hand) Wright. From 1781 to 1901 fifty-nine of the name have taken one or more degrees from Yale, and out of the whole number of gradu- ates of the name seven became clergymen, eight doctors of medicine, ten bachelors or doctors of philosophy, and the large majority were lawyers. On the index of officers of the University we find one in the chair of physics and chemistry, one in the chair of Latin and one a tutor as early as 1825. Williams, White. Strong, Smith, Porter, Lewis, Jones, Johnson, Huntington, Hubbard, Hall, Clark, Brown. Baldwin, Allen and Adams are the only other family names with as many graduates.
(I) Thomas, son of John and Grace (Glas- cock) Wright, of Breck Hall or "The Moat House," South Weald, county Essex, Eng- land, was born in England, where he was bap- tized November 19, 1610 .. He emigrated to America and is found at Wethersfield, Con- necticut Colony, in 1640, where he was deputy to the general court, 1643, and where some time after May 1, 1647, he married as his second wife, Margaret, widow of John Elsom, who died without issue in 1670. Thomas Wright by his first wife had five children as follows: I. Thomas, married Elizabeth Chit- tenden, June 16, 1657 ; he died in April, 171I. 2. James, married (first) Mary -, and (second) Dorcas Weed, November 20, 1660; he died in 1705. 3. Samuel, born in 1634, in England, as were all these children; he mar- ried Mary Butler, September 29, 1659, and died February 13, 1690. 4. Joseph, see for- ward.
(II) Joseph, fourth son of Thomas Wright, the immigrant, by his first wife, was born in England in 1639, and was brought to America as an infant. He lived in Wethersfield, Con- necticut, and married (first) Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Foster) Stoddard, Decem- ber 10, 1663. By this marriage he had seven children: 1. Mary, April 15, 1665. 2. Eliza- beth, November 18, 1667. 3. Joseph, February 14, 1670. 4. Sarah, May 16, 1674. 5. Thomas, January 18, 1677, married (first) Prudence
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Deming, October 4, 1705, and (second) Abi- gail Churchill, November 3, 1715. 6. John, May 19, 1679, married Mary, daughter of Lieutenant Jonathan Boardman, July 4, 1706. 7. Jonathan, June 18, 1681, married Hannah, daughter of Joseph Rand, March 24, 1706. Mary (Stoddard) Wright died August 23, 1683, and her husband married (second) Mercy, sister of his deceased wife, March IO, 1685, and by her he had two children, twins, Benjamin, see forward, and Nathaniel, born October 16, 1688. Nathaniel married, March 12, 1712, Ann, daughter of Jonathan Deming. Deacon Joseph Wright died in Wethersfield, Connecticut, December 17, 1714.
(III) Benjamin, twin son with Nathaniel of Deacon Joseph Wright by his second wife, Mercy (Stoddard) Wright, was born in Weth- ersfield, Connecticut, October 16, 1688. He married (first) Hannah Holmes, June 18, 1719, and probably (second) Elizabeth Hand, about 1725, and by this second marriage David (see forward) was born.
(IV) David, son of Benjamin and Eliza- beth (Hand) Wright, was born in Wethers- field, Connecticut, then a part of Saybrook, about 1727. he married Hester, second daughter of John and Sarah (Williams) Whittelsey, of Saybrook, and their children were: I. William (q. v.). 2. David, born Oc- tober 30, 1756. He was a lawyer in New London and in the course of his professional duties was called to draw up the will of a client who was dying with yellow fever and in con- sequence he contracted the disease and died September 4, 1798. He married, March 6, 1786, Martha, third daughter of Captain Rus- sell and Mary (Gray) Hubbard, of New Lon- don, and they had five sons and two daugh- ters born of this marriage, four sons and two daughters living to adult age. The oldest son became a minister of the gospel and William was the second son.
(V) William, son of David and Hester (Whittelsey) Wright, was born in Westbrook on the borders of Clinton, Connecticut, about 1754. He was graduated at Yale, A. B., 1774, A. M., 1777, and became a physician and sur- geon, joining the New Haven Medical Soci- ety in 1784. Shortly after he removed to Rockland county, New York, and lived near Nyack, his residence being in that part of the county which became the township of Clarks- town. He married and had twin sons, born November 13, 1789, one of whom he named William, see forward. Dr. William Wright
died away from home while on a visit to the south in 1808.
(VI) William (2), twin son of Dr. William (1) Wright, was born in Clarksville, Rock- land county, New York, November 13, 1789. He was a volunteer soldier in the war of 1812 and on returning home became a saddler in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1815. In 1821 he removed his business to Newark, New Jer- sey, where he became a prominent member of the Henry Clay Whig party and active in the established organization of the party in the city of Newark. He was elected mayor of the city in 1839, serving 1840-43, and was a rep- resentative of that party in the United States house of representatives, serving throughout the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth con- gresses, 1843-47. In 1847 he was defeated in the election for governor of New Jersey by Daniel Haines, who had already served as governor, 1843-44. He was elected United States senator from New Jersey in 1853 by the Democratic members of the legislature, to complete the term of Senator Robert Field Stockton, who had resigned his seat January 10, 1853, his term to expire March 3, 1857. On completing this term, Senator Wright was out of office until 1863 when the legislature again elected him to the United States senate for a full term to expire March 3, 1869, and he took his seat December 7, 1863. He was chairman of the committee on manufactures and of that on contingent expenses. He died in Newark, New Jersey, November 1, 1866, without com- pleting his term.
He married, September 2, 1819, Minerva, daughter of William and Jemima (Tomlinson) Darrow, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Sep- tember 2, 1795. Her father and mother were married in 1785. The children of Hon. Will- iam and Minerva (Darrow) Wright were born as . follows : I. Frederick William, May 21, 1820, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. 2. Catherine Maria, March 23, 1822, in Bridgeport. 3. Ed- ward Henry, see forward.
(VII) Edward Henry, second son and third child of Hon. William (2) and Minerva (Dar- row) Wright, was born in Newark, New Jer- sey, April 5, 1824. He was prepared for col- lege at St. Paul's School, College Point, Long Island, New York, and was graduated at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, New Jer- sey, A. B., 1844, A. M., 1847. He then studied law with Alexander Hamilton in New York; with Archer Gifford in Newark, New Jersey, and at Harvard Law School, Harvard Uni-
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versity, and he was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1847. He traveled in Europe for study and observation, 1848-49, and on return- ing to the United States was appointed by President Tyler in May, 1849, secretary of the United States legislature at St. Petersburg, where he remained through the administration of President Tyler. He was a staunch and zealous Democrat for fifty years, and on the outbreak of the civil war, 1861, he volunteered for service in the Federal army, and was ap- pointed in May, 1861, major of the Sixth United States Cavalry and aide-de-camp on the staff of Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, with the rank of colonel. On the retirement of General Scott, Major Wright was assigned to the staff of General George B. McClellan, with the same rank. This brought him active field duty on the Peninsula of Virginia, and in the Maryland campaign, and his commanding general recommended him for two brevets for gallant and meritorious service in the line of duty. He was ordered to report with his com- mander at Trenton, New Jersey, after the Maryland campaign, and he resumed civil life as did General McClellan, and he became a director of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, and of the Newark Gas Company. He was made a companion in the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and a commander of the Marcus I .. Ward Post, No. 88, Grand Army of the Re- public, which organization he served as com- mander and past commander. He was made a member of the Essex Club of Newark, and also a member of the Union Club of New York City, and served for several years as vice-president of the former. He was also made a member of the board of trustees of the Episcopal Fund of the Division of Newark; president of the board of managers of the New Jersey Home for Disabled Soldiers, with which board he was the active executive officer for twenty-five years.
Major Wright married, October 9, 1860, in New York City, Dorothea Eliza, daughter of Stevens Thomson and Dora E. (Phelps) Mason, who was born at the home of Thad- deus Phelps, No. 23 Park Place, in New York City. Her father was the first governor of the state of Michigan, and founder of the Univer- sity of Michigan. The children of Stevens Thomson and Dora E. (Phelps) Mason were all born in New York City as follows : I. Stevens Thomson Mason, who died when three years old. 2. Dorothea E. Mason. 3. Thad- deus Phelps Mason, who died when six years
of age. The children of Edward Henry and Dorothea Eliza (Mason) Wright were born at No. 24 Park Place, Newark, New Jersey, as follows: I. Minerva, August 6, 1861, mar- ried Rowland Parry Keasby and had child Dorothea. 2. William Mason, September 24. 1863, married Marjorie Jerauld and had chil- dren: William Mason, born at Fort Omaha, Nebraska; Jerauld, born at Amherst, Massa- chusetts ; Marjorie, born at Niagara Falls, New York; the father is now stationed as major of the Eighth Infantry at Monterey, California. 3. Emily Virginia, October 29, 1864. 4. Julia Dora, October 29, 1865. 5. Katherine Maria, May 20, 1866, died in infancy. 6. Dora Katherine, June 18, 1868, married Chauncey G. Parker and they have five children : Chauncey G. Jr., Edith Wright, Edward Courtlandt and Dora Mason (twins), Elizabeth Steitz. 7. Edith Howard, March 5, 1871, died young. 8. Amabel Phelps, died young. 9. Edward Henry Jr., February 13, 1875; married Caroline Lesher Firth, and their son is Edward Henry, who was of the ninth generation from Thomas Wright, the immigrant settler of Wethersfield.
General James Fowler Rusling, RUSLING LL. D., was born April 14, 1834, at Washington, New Jersey, but has lived chiefly at Trenton, New Jersey. The name has been "Rusling" during the past century. But in previous centuries (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth) it was also writ- ten "Rustling," "Ruslyng," "Ruslinge," "Rus- lin," "Russlin," and "Russelin," according to the old parish registers of Winterton, Eng- land. Possibly descended from the Rosslyns of Scotland, or the Rosselyns, Rosselynes. Rocelines, or Rosselines of England. Perhaps of old Saxon origin. The Saxon kings had a bodyguard, called "Ruslingas," and hence the name probably.
The first of the family in America was James Rusling-he always wrote his name thus. He was the son of Robert and Chris- tiana Rusling, and was born at Hull, York- shire, England, July 26, 1762, but christened at Winteringham, Lincolnshire, England, about ten miles south of Hull, August 23, 1762, and appears by the parish register there. He died at Newburgh, near Hackettstown, New Jersey, August II, 1826, and was buried at Washing- ton, New Jersey, but reinterred at Asbury, New Jersey, 1892, in "The Rusling Plot" in the graveyard of the Methodist Episcopal church there. He was descended from Will-
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iam "Ruslyng," Brian Rusling, or Robert Rusling probably, of Winterton, Lincolnshire, England, about three miles from Wintering- ham, who lived there or near there 1563-1638, or from Edward Rusling, who lived there 1724. He was married to Mary Fowler in the Parish Church at Winterton (Old "All Saints"), May 15, 1787, as appears by the parish register there. The same year he settled in business at Scunthorpe, about five miles from Winterton, and continued there until 1791 or thereabouts, when with two children he removed to Hull. But in 1795, with his wife and four children (three sons and one daughter), he removed to America, settling first in New York, but in 1797 or thereabouts removed to New Jersey, settling at Newburgh, Morris county, about two and one-half miles southwest of Hacketts- town. Here he had previously purchased a considerable tract of land, in the "English Set- tlement," on the "Beswick Tract;" but soon lost it all (his title being attacked), except about one hundred acres of mountain land, and was reduced from comparative affluence (acquired by himself) to poverty again. He began again as a school-teacher, but soon had a store at Newburgh, another at Anderson, and then another at Washington, and managed all three successfully. His education was limited, but he became a skilled bookkeeper, account- ant, and general man of business, and died 1826 with the respect and esteem of his com- munity. In religion he was a Methodist, and one of the early disciples of John Wesley in England. He was there known as "James Rusling the Radical," and left England be- cause craving greater freedom and larger opportunity for himself and children. In the Methodist church here he became a trustee, class leader and recording stewart. He was leader of the first Methodist class in Hacketts- town, active in building the first Methodist church there, and also another at Washington and Asbury, and for many years was record- ing steward of Asbury Circuit, when it com- prised half of northern Jersey nearly. From him are descended all the Ruslings now in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Canada, it is believed, if not in America.
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