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Robert Curtis Ogden was born on June 20, 1836, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Jonathan and Abigail (Murphey) Ogden. His father was a descendant of Richard Ogden, who in the seventeenth century settled at Stamford, Connecticut, and at Fairfield, New Jersey. His mother came of Scotch Presbyterian stock from County Antrim, Ireland.
All of Robert's formal schooling was obtained before his fourteenth year, chiefly at a city academy that prepared students for the University of Pennsylvania.
At fourteen Robert Ogden was working in a dry-goods store and in 1852, when Jonathan Ogden removed to New York as a partner in the clothing house of Devlin & Company, the son went with him and continued his apprenticeship to trade. Within a few years he had been admitted as a junior partner in the Devlin firm, and had established a home in Brooklyn. His part in the Civil War was mainly confined to a month of soldiering with the 23rd Regiment of the New York National Guard in the defense of Pennsylvania towns threatened by Lee's invasion in 1863.
Ogden's earliest contacts with the South were formed on a journey during the opening months of 1861 as an agent of his clothing house. After peace came, the work of his friend Samuel C. Armstrong in founding and conducting Hampton Institute in Virginia had a profound influence upon his life and ideals. He saw that Armstrong was giving his life to the problem of negro education and the example inspired him to devote his own abilities to some like form of public service. His business and his growing family, however, made financial demands that could not be ignored or postponed, and a series of bad years in the seventies made his position precarious. In 1879, when his situation in New York had grown almost impossible, John Wanamaker invited him to become an associate in his Philadelphia retailing enterprises. Ten years later, upon Wanamaker's joining President Harrison's cabinet, Ogden took over the management of the entire business, which remained in his hands, much to Wanamaker's satisfaction, until the close of the Harrison administration in 1893. At the age of sixty he returned to New York to open the Wanamaker store in that city. Then followed more than ten strenuous years in which activities and exertions such as usually fall to the lot of younger men were required of him in the rapid expansion of the business.
Meanwhile, as a trustee of Hampton, Ogden had never lost interest in Southern education, but the schooling of the white population was taking a more central place in his thought. He was fortunate in his contacts with progressive Southern school men and with several Southernborn men of influence who lived and worked in the North. Cooperating heartily with both groups, he was able, through annual conferences held in Southern cities, to enlist the effective support of public opinion for ambitious educational programs. In the opening years of the twentieth century this "Ogden movement, " as it was called, was an effective factor in the educational revival that swept over the Southern states. Ogden headed the Southern Education Board which vigorously promoted campaigns for increased school taxes and higher standards of supervision for both white and negro schools, and lengthening of terms, and later sponsored farm demonstration work in many communities. He was also a member of the General Education Board and was instrumental in dispensing large funds for Southern education. Encountering much opposition in the early years, he continually gained support until the time came when few Northerners were so favorably known in the South.
As old age approached, Ogden developed heart trouble and in 1907 felt compelled to retire from business. He was still president of the Hampton board of trustees, a trustee of Tuskegee Institute, and a director of Union Theological Seminary. He had long been an elder in the Presbyterian Church, especially active in Sunday-school work, and was a leader of the liberal element in that denomination. He died at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Robert Ogden headed the Southern Education Board which worked for better funding and higher standards for Southern schools. He was a member of the General Education Board, which worked for funding of Southern educational projects. Ogden also was president of the Hampton board of trustees, a trustee of Tuskegee Institute, and a director of Union Theological Seminary.
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Robert Ogden was president of Southern Education Board; a member of the General Education Board; president of the Conference for Education in the South; and a liberal member of the Presbyterian Church.
Robert Ogden married on March 1, 1860, Ellen Lewis, a young woman of Welsh descent.
