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Life and letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin; Volume 02
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Rollo Ogden was an American journalist and editor of the New York Times (1922-1937).
Background
Rollo Ogden was born on January 19, 1856, at Sand Lake in Rensselaer County, New York, of mixed New England and Canadian ancestry, the oldest son in a family of three boys and one girl of the Rev. Isaac Gray and Emma (Huntington) Ogden. His father traced his line to Puritan settlers in 1640; his mother came of an old Ontario family. Both parents had taught school, his father occupied Presbyterian pastorates in various towns of western New York.
Education
Young Rollo Ogden was tutored chiefly at home. He became a voracious reader, mastering the English and New England classics and acquiring a special fondness for Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth among poets, and Matthew Arnold, Emerson, and Lowell among prose writers. Studying at Williams College (1873-77), he earned part of his expenses by tutoring, pitched for the baseball team, and felt the influence of the economist Arthur Latham Perry and (for one year) the philosopher John Bascom. After graduation he spent two years at Andover Theological Seminary and one at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
Career
Becoming associate minister of the First Presbyterian (Old Stone) Church in Cleveland, Ohio, he was ordained in the following year, and soon afterward departed for Mexico City to teach in a theological school maintained by the Presbyterian Mission Board. From this experience he gained a mastery of much Spanish literature, a strong interest in Mexican antiquities, and an intense admiration for the historian William H. Prescott. His return to Cleveland in 1883 seemed to open a bright career, for he became pastor of the Case Avenue Presbyterian Church, one of the strongest in the city. But religious doubt grew upon him. Always reticent as to its precise nature, he spoke of Mrs. Humphry Ward's Robert Elsmere as describing a parallel struggle. In 1887 he avowed his unwillingness to continue preaching orthodox doctrines and took the heroic step of resigning.
Without savings and with an infant daughter to support, he removed to the suburbs of New York - first Ramapo, New Jersey, then Rye, New York, then Summit, New Jersey, his home until his last years - to live by his pen. Four years of meager returns from book reviews, special articles, and editorials were ended when in 1891 he joined the editorial staff of the Evening Post under E. L. Godkin. The Evening Post was then at the height of its special fame as what one New Yorker called "that pessimistic, malignant, and malevolent sheet - which no good citizen ever goes to bed without reading!" Godkin had made its editorial page, selections from which were transferred to the Nation, a weekly of which he was also editor, a powerful national influence, for it was read by nearly all leaders of American thought.
Ogden was associated with a group of remarkable talent, including Horace White, William A. Linn, Oswald Garrison Villard, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, and Wendell Phillips Garrison, among whom he soon took first place. Ogden's crisp, incisive style, wide knowledge of modern history and literature, and instinctive understanding of forces and men in American and British politics made him Horace White's principal lieutenant when Godkin left the helm in 1899, and editor-in-chief when White retired in 1903. Ogden remained head of the paper until transfer of ownership to Thomas W. Lamont and managerial control to Edwin F. Gay led to his resignation in May 1920.
His course was marked by adherence to Godkin's somewhat old-fashioned liberalism. He was a stout champion of anti-imperialism, low tariffs, civil service reform, Negro rights, woman suffrage, and international action to guard peace, but was conservative on issues that involved a wide expansion of governmental powers. Like Godkin, he devoted himself primarily to the editorial page, news policies being controlled by Villard and others. Economic topics he left largely to Fabian Franklin and international affairs to Simeon Strunsky. Of Theodore Roosevelt he took a generally unfavorable view, though admiring his energy and conceding that he had awakened the national conscience. He pleaded for recognition of Taft's presidential achievements but declared that he had been "devoid of the higher imagination in public affairs. " Supporting Wilson in 1912 and 1916, Ogden approved nearly all his policies, domestic and foreign. He endorsed American entry into the World War and, though deploring Wilson's attendance at the Peace Conference, fought earnestly for the League of Nations.
Ogden's influence was at its height during the nearly twenty years when he controlled the editorial policy of the Evening Post and Nation. Though their combined circulation never reached 75, 000 copies, he was eagerly read by editors, university teachers, and others, who quoted him with effect. As he avoided public notice, almost never made speeches, and seldom signed an utterance, many people erroneously supposed Villard to be active head of the papers. Actually, Ogden decided all positions, wrote nearly all the main political editorials, and exerted himself firmly in office management. While he lacked the intellectual force and depth of Godkin, his elevation of spirit, robust integrity, and command of a fighting English style gave him a high place among journalists. He read the British and American press with a thoroughness which constantly amazed coworkers; he kept up with current literature. No journalist could treat with defter expertness a wide range of social and literary topics, from college education to golf.
Ogden found time to translate Jorge Isaacs's María: A South American Romance (1890), to contribute a life of William H. Prescott to the American Men of Letters series (1904), and to write the authorized Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin in two volumes (1907), a badly organized and somewhat hectic biography that was nevertheless a fascinating character study. When in May 1920 Ogden became associate editor of the New York Times he gained a much broader platform for his opinions. On the death of Charles R. Miller in July 1922 he became editor. These later years were the happiest of his life. Seeing eye to eye with Adolph S. Ochs, chief owner and builder of the Times, he shared policy-making with him, John H. Finley, Carr V. Van Anda, and others in a singularly affectionate relationship. Several Evening Post veterans, notably Simeon Strunsky and the financial editor Alexander Dana Noyes, accompanied him to the Times.
The financial worries which had always troubled him when he was on the older paper were now gone. Moving in a larger world, he saw more of public men. He supported John W. Davis for the presidency in 1924, Alfred E. Smith four years later, and, not without misgivings, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. Remaining a staunch internationalist, he stood for World Court membership when hope for American acceptance of the League was dead. His battle against the Smoot-Hawley Tariff was long remembered for its vigor. Accepting parts of the New Deal, he was highly critical of other parts and hostile to the great augmentation of federal power which accompanied it.
In the last years of his life he was hampered by growing blindness; but even when this became total, he had the news read to him and dictated his editorials with unabated conviction. He was still active at the beginning of 1937. His sudden death, of pneumonia, was followed by cremation, and the ashes were scattered.
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Personality
In his prime Ogden was an impressive figure. He was tall, spare, erect, and quick of movement; his large bald brow, keen eyes, and mobile, nervous mouth bespoke his intellectual energy. He wrote and talked under high tension, was abrupt in manner, seldom used the telephone and never the typewriter, and but rarely gave rein to his strong sense of humor. Oswald Garrison Villard in Fighting Years, written after a complete breach in their friendship, accuses him of a lack of moral courage; actually he possessed that quality in the highest degree. Extremely shy and reserved, he struck casual acquaintances as rather glacial, but to intimates he revealed a spirit as sensitive as it was elevated and gave frequent glimpses of his warmth of heart. His dignity was of the old school, but his quick mind kept pace with the times.
Connections
On November 30, 1881, Rollo Ogden married the minister's daughter, Susan M. Mitchell.