Charles Brawdy OGDEN, M.D., who has been a life-long resident of East Liverpool where he has attained a high degree of prominence in the practice of medicine, cronies of one of the Pioneer families of America. He traces his ancestry in this country back to David OGDEN, who was a member of the company that sailed with William PENN in the good ship "Welcome" to America in the year 1682. David OGDEN was born in England, February 1, 1655, and was married prior to coming to this country to Martha HOULSTON, a daughter of John and Ann HOULSTON. He settled on a part of the tract granted to William PENN and died at Middleton, Chester County. Pennsylvania, August 22, 1705.

The next in line of descent to our subject was Stephen OGDEN, who was born September 16, 1705, and died in 1760. His wife, Hannah SURMAN, died in 1783. Their son, Aaron OGDEN, was born at Darby, Pennsylvania, and married Esther PRESTON.

Stephen OGDEN, the grandfather of our subject [Charles Brawdy OGDEN], was a son of Aaron and Esther (PRESTON) OGDEN. He was born at Darby, Pennsylvania, April 18, 1777, and died in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1846. He married Hannah BARTRAM, a granddaughter of Americas’s first botanist, John BARTRAM, who was born in 1699 at Darby, Pennsylvania. and died in 1777. Stephen OGDEN and his wife came to this county [Columbiana County, Ohio] about the year 1800 and settled in Fairfield township. Two years later they located at Lisbon, and late in life at East Liverpool, where Mr. OGDEN died.

Dr. Benjamin B. OGDEN, son of Stephen and Hannah (BARTRAM) OGDEN, was born at Lisbon, Ohio, March 13. 1806. He studied medicine under Doctor POTTER in his native town and practiced there and at Wellsville for some years. He moved to East Liverpool in 1830, being the first of his profession to locate in the then small town, and practiced until his death, which took place April 27, 1878. He was first married, in 1825, to Mary Ann MAHLIN. a daughter of Joshua and Catherine MAHLIN. She died in 1845, leaving these six children: Benjamin, who died aged nine years; Mary Ann, Who died in infancy; Pauline O., who married Samuel GEDDER; Joshua; Stephen; and, Caroline. In 1850, Dr. Benjamin B. OGDEN married Catherine BRAWDY, who was born in Pittsburg and died in East Liverpool about 1868, leaving the following children: Charles Brawdy, subject of this biography; Hannah M., born in 1853, who was married in 1881 to George A. SLENTZ, of Beaver County, Pennsylvania; Benjamin A., born in 1856, deceased in 1861; Aaron B., born in 1859, a physician by profession, who married Alice STANDISH; John Elmer, born in 1863, a merchant at Mount Ayr, Iowa, who married Florence WOOD; George E., born in 1866, a resident of Mount Ayr, Iowa, who married Etta M. WILLIAMS.

Charles B. OGDEN was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, July 19. 1851. He completed the common school course, then attended Mount Union College, after which he Spent one year at the University of Michigan. He graduated from the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati in 1878, although practicing some years before, and has since that year practiced in East Liverpool. He commands a very large general practice, and has the esteem of his fellow-citizens to a marked degree.

Dr. OGDEN was united in marriage in 1878 with Mary E. TALBOT, by whom he has four children: May E., born March 27, 1884, who married George C. SIMMONS, of East Liverpool, and has two children — Deborah C. and May; Charles B., born April 2, 1887; Catherine Ethel, born May 27, 1884, the Wife of Frank S. McKENNA, who is identified with a brass foundry in Pittsburg; and, John Talbot, born October 11. 1889.

Politically, our subject is a Republican. He served as health officer several years. He belongs to the County, State and American medical associations, and is a member of the Masons and the Elks. He is a member of Pilgrim Commandery, No. 55. K. T. His parents were strict Quakers, but he is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of East Liverpool.

SOURCE:
McCORD, William B. History of Columbiana County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens Pp. 722-25. Biographical Publishing Co. Chicago. 1905.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, July of 2009