Butte-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Ogden, Samuel 1832 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 30, 2006, 2:41 am Author: Fariss & Smith (1882) SAMUEL OGDEN was born at Lancashire, in the year 1832. His father died when he was seven years of age, and his mother, accompanied by her son, came to the United States in 1842, and located at Warsaw, Illinois. Samuel started out for himself when he was ten years of age, and worked in that part of the state, and on the Mississippi river, till 1855, when he came to California, and began mining at St. Louis, Sierra county. In 1861, he started a fast-freight line from Marysville to St. Louis, which he ran till 1865. He went to ranching at that time, near Dayton. In 1879, he bought a claim on Middle Butte creek, two miles south of Dogtown, where he proposes to make a home. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, IN TWO VOLUMES. I. HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850. BY FRANK T. GILBERT. The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California. Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. The Discovery of Gold in California. BY HARRY L. WELLS. II. HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS. BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS. HARRY L. WELLS, 517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO 1882. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers 517 Clay St., San Francisco File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/butte/bios/ogden562nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb