ODGEN, Robert (d. 1857)

DIED — At Greenville, Louisiana, on the 6th inst., Judge Robert OGDEN, a native of Elizabethtown, N.J., in the 82d year of his age.  He graduated at Nassau Hall, Princeton, N.J., and prepared for the bar in the office of his uncle, Col. Aaron OGDEN, and in the law school of Judge REEVES. He married at Newbern, N.C., a daughter of Abner NASH, one of the Governors of that State during the Revolutionary war, and there formed an association in the practice of law with Gov. NASH, and who in later years became so distinguished as a jurist in Louisiana.  He afterwards, having pursued his profession for some years in Charleston, S.C., removed in 1821, to Louisiana.


Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 19, 1857

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