David Aaron Ogden (January 10, 1770 – June 9, 1829) was a U.S. Representative from

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and a member of the prominent Ogden family.

Early life

Born in Morristown in the

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, he was the son of Sarah Frances (Ludlow) and Abraham Ogden. His sister, Gertrude Gouverneur Ogden (1777–1850), was married to Joshua Waddington (1755–1844), a founder of the

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. Ogden attended King's College (now

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), New York City. He studied law and was

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in November 1791, beginning practice in

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Career

He became counselor at law in New Jersey in 1796. He was concerned in the negotiations as to whether

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, also from Newark and an executor of his grandfather's will, or Thomas Jefferson became president after the election of 1800, and was widely thought to have tried to get Burr become president.

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was for a time a legal partner with Ogden and his brother, Thomas Ludlow Ogden (1773–1844), until Hamilton's death in 1804. Ogden, with his brothers Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Gouverneur Ogden (1778–1851), developed through the

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huge tracts of northern New York state. Through their position as counsel to the

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, David and Thomas Ogden influenced the settlement of

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, the construction of the

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, the determination of property law in New York, even political competition in the Republican Party. Their company was succeeded in buying the majority of the Seneca Indians' reservation by the reported use of bribery and intimidation in August 1826.

Public office

He served as associate judge of the court of common pleas from 1811 to 1815. He also was a member of the

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in 1814–15. Ogden was elected as a

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to the

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(March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819). He was First Judge of the St. Lawrence County Court from 1820 to 1824 and from 1825 to 1829, and he was one of the commissioners to settle the boundary between Canada and the United States.

Personal life

Ogden moved to Hamilton (now Waddington), St. Lawrence County, New York, and built a large mansion on Ogden Island. On May 30, 1797, he married Rebecca Cornell Edwards (1776–1852), the daughter of Isaac Edwards (1765–1775) and Mary Cornell. They were the parents of: * Isaac Edwards Ogden (1798–), who married Euphrosine Mericult, Letitia Hanna, and Elizabeth Chamberlain * Sarah Ogden (1799–1844), who married Charles Russell Codman (1784–1852) * William Ogden (1801–1838), who married Harriet Seton Ogden (1806–1884), in 1832. * Wallace Ogden (1803–1828) * Mary E. Ogden (1805–1853), who married Herman LeRoy Newbold (d. 1854) * Samuel Cornell Ogden (1806–1862), who married Sarah F. Waddington (1810–1903), his first cousin, in 1843. * Catharine H. Ogden (1808–1874), who married Samuel Ogden (1803–1879), her first cousin * Susan W. Ogden (1810–1892), who married William Roebuck * Rebecca E. Ogden (1811–1886), who married George B. Ogden * Duncan Campbell Ogden (1813–1859), who married Miriam Gratz Meredith, and Elizabeth Cox, and was a member of the First Texas Legislature. * David A. Ogden, Jr. (1815–), who married Louisa Lanfear Ogden died in

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) on June 9, 1829 and was interred in Brookside Cemetery,

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Legacy

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, a

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in St. Lawrence County,

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, was named for him and his uncle, Samuel Ogden (1746—1810).

References

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Ogden papers on land development in William L. Clements Library
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