Elias Bailey Dayton Ogden (May 22, 1800 – February 24, 1865) was an American attorney and jurist who served three terms as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1848 until his death in 1865.
Early life
He was the son of Elizabeth Chetwood (1766–1826) and the 5th New Jersey Governor and
United States Senator
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Princeton College
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in 1819.
Career
Immediately after graduation, Ogden began the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1824, and later was admitted as a counselor in 1829 and
Sergeant-at-law
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in 1837 He practiced law in
Paterson, New Jersey
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Governor of New Jersey
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in 1843, eventually withdrawing in favor of his first cousin,
Daniel Haines
Daniel Haines (January 6, 1801 – January 26, 1877) was an American politician, jurist and lawyer. He was the 14th governor of New Jersey.
Early life
Haines was born in New York City, the nephew of Governor Aaron Ogden. He graduated from The ...
Passaic County
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to the New Jersey
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in 1844.
Ogden served three terms as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, first being appointed in 1848, reappointed in 1855, and serving until his death in 1865.
Ogden was a director of the
Paterson and Hudson River Railroad
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at the time of its incorporation in 1831, and was the railroad's president in 1852.
Upon his retirement, he returned to live at his family home in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he was born, in 1858.
Personal life
On August 23, 1826, Ogden was married to Susan Dayton Beasley (1805–1848), the daughter of Rev. Frederick Beasley. Together, they were the parents of:
* Frederick Beasley Ogden (1827–1893), who married Jane Millen Ford and served as
Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
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from 1865 to 1867.
* Aaron Ogden (1828–1896), who married Harriet Emily Travers.
* Susan Dayton Ogden (1831–1878), who married William Shepard Biddle.
* Dayton Ogden (b. 1833), who married Esther Gracie.
* Elizabeth Chetwood Ogden (b. 1835), who married Rev. John Martin Henderson.
After the death of his first wife, he remarried to Louisa Augusta Ford (1820–1857), the daughter of Henry A. Ford. She died soon thereafter in 1857 at the age of 31. Ogden married for the third time to Alice De Hart (d. 1891), daughter of W. Chetwood De Hart.
He died there of
pneumonia
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in 1865.
Descednants
Through his daughter Susan, he was the grandfather of U.S. Army general John Biddle.