Background
John B. Ogden was the son of Colonel John B. Ogden and Sarah Buck. His father died in 1813 from the effects of a wound received during the War of 1812. His mother Sarah (Buck) Ogden died in 1873.
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Ogden was an only child. At 17 years old, he began the study of law. John Sibley of New Jersey.
In 1843 he came to Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas where he lived the rest of his life.
In 1856, he was made a United States Commissioner of the District Court, Western District of Arkansas, which also included all of the district of the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). He held that office until after the Civil War.
A short time after his release, Parley was murdered by Hector McLean, James Cornell and Amasa Howell in front of the Winn farm near Alma, Crawford Company, Arkansas. In 1866 Ogden was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney for the Western District of the State (of Arkansas) and held that position until 1871 or 1872.
Ogden, Lawyer, was alive in 1889 living in Van Buren, Crawford Company, Arkansas at the time Goodspeed made his famous biographies of that area.
