Charles W. Ogden
Charles Walton Ogden, Jr. (November 19, 1873 – January 20, 1956) was an American real estate investor and philanthropist.
Early life[edit]
Ogden was born on November 19, 1873, in New York City. He was a son of Charles Walton Ogden (1843–1895), a member of the firm of Ogden & Wallace, dealers in iron and steel,[1] and Louisa Helena (née Frazier) Ogden (b. 1841). His younger sister was Mary Frazier Ogden.[2]
His paternal grandparents were Grace and Joseph Ogden, had been born in England in 1808. Through his father, he was "distantly connected with the Goelet family, but was not related to the well-known New-York family of Ogdens."[1] His maternal grandparents were Nalbro Frazier and Mary Eyre (née Robinson) Frazier.[2] His maternal uncle, Capt. Nalbro Frazier married Mary Ellen Jackson (a daughter of Isaac Rand Jackson, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to Denmark in the 1840s).[2]
He attended the Cutler School before attending Columbia University, from where he graduated in 1895.[3]
Career[edit]
Ogden had a real estate business, located at 25 Beaver Street in Lower Manhattan, for many years. In 1921, he served as a director of the Metropolitan Trust Company (among such notables as Beverly Chew, Ogden Mills, Herbert Parsons, and Harold I. Pratt).[4]
After his retirement, he devoted his time to management of charitable groups, serving as the Secretary of the New York Protestant Episcopal Mission Society and was an honorary vice president of the Community Service Society of which he had been a board member since its inception in 1939 in addition to holding a number of posts with hits predecessor organization, the Charity Organization Society. He was a member of the vestry of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion for more than sixty years and was treasurer of its Home for the Aged. Ogden also served as vice president of the Clear Pool Camp, a division of the Madison Square Boys Club in Kent, Connecticut.[3]
Personal life[edit]
In 1897,[2] Ogden was married to Ida Gertrude Little (b. 1877), a daughter of John Mason Little and Helen (née Beal) Little.[5] Ida's uncle was Boston architect James Lovell Little Jr. Together, Charles and Ida had a summer house in Swampscott, Massachusetts, known as "The Den" on Little's Point, and in Rowayton, Connecticut known as "Shenemere",[6] and were the parents of:
- Charles Walton Ogden III (1898–1901), who died young.[2]
- Louisa Helena Ogden (1900–1989), who in 1929 married Caspar Crowninshield de Gersdorff (1901–1982), a son of Carl Auguste de Gersdorff and Helen (née Crowninshield) de Gersdorff and grandson of prominent artist and author Frederic Crowninshield; his sister Josephine was the wife of Frederick Bradlee[7][8]
- Ida Gertrude Ogden (b. 1901).
Ogden died on January 20, 1956, at 14 East 79th Street, his residence in New York City.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "C. W. OGDEN KILLS HIMSELF; After Taking Aconite, He Uses a Revolver in Central Park. DESPONDENT BECAUSE OF ILLNESS He Was Prominent in Business, a Member of Many Clubs, and a Vestryman of the Church of Holy Communion". The New York Times. 12 June 1895. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Leach, Josiah Granville (1910). Some Account of Capt. John Frazier and His Descendants: With Notes on the West and Checkley Families. Private Circulation. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ a b c "CHARLES OGDEN, 82, CHARITIES OFFICIAL". The New York Times. 21 January 1956. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
- ^ "In The Equitable Building". New-York Tribune. 9 Dec 1921. p. 10. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ Who's who Along the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay. Salem Press Company. 1914. p. 57. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ Social Register, Summer. Social Register Association. 1918. p. 200. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ "L. HELENA OGDEN BECOMES A BRIDE; Weds Caspar Crowninshield de Gersdorff in Chapel of St. James's Church. NATALIE CONKLING MARRIED Ceremony for Her and Meylert M. Armstrong in First Presbyterian Church--Other Weddings". The New York Times. 21 May 1929. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (23 July 1939). "Fishers Island Colony Draws New Yorkers; C.C. de Gersdorffs, Charles Nicholses Jr. Take Cottages". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2022.