Howard-Miami County IN Archives Biographies.....Ogborn, W. L. 1878 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com April 5, 2006, 4:27 am Author: Jackson Morrow (circa 1909) W. L. OGBORN. The honored subject of this sketch is one of the young and enthusiastic business men of the attractive city of Kokomo. Howard county, where he has maintained his home for many years. He has been most prominently identified with industrial enterprises of considerable scope and importance and the name which he bears has been one which has stood for progressiveness and enterprise, while he is a scion of one of the old and honored pioneer families. Owing to his business relations with the people of this county, and so high is the confidence in which he is held that it is imperative that he be accorded recognition in a publication of the province assigned to the one at hand. W. L. Ogborn is a native of Washington Court House, Ohio, where he first saw the light in 1878, the son of Henry M. Ogborn. He remained on his father's farm until he was fifteen years old attending the common schools up to that time, when the family moved to Washington Court House, where he entered a business college, completing the prescribed course and gaining valuable mental training which has stood him so well in hand during his subsequent business career. For several years after completing his education he was clerk in a grocery store. After this he was employed for several years with the Adams Express Company in Indiana. The father of the subject in the meantime moved to Converse, Miami county, Indiana, where he still resides. On January 1, 1907, our subject began the produce business in which he had previously had some experience. Being successful from the start and longing for larger and better fields in which to carry on this line of work, he moved to Kokomo September 1, 1907, and was manager of the Ballston Refrigerating Storage Company of New York until April 1st of the following year, when this company disposed of its business and he then took up a partnership with Frank D. Miller, the firm now being known as Ogborn & Miller. They engage in buying and shipping butter and eggs, Mr. Ogborn being the manager of the business, which has become quite extensive owing to his excellent management, running at a conservative estimate to one hundred thousand dollars annually. New territory is constantly being invaded by this well regulated firm and its future is one that promises great things for those interested in the firm. The business of the subject is located at 223 and 225 South Main street, Kokomo, where they have a modern, ample and well equipped plant, suitable in every respect to conduct a business of this nature. Mr. Ogborn was married to Agnes Snell, of Peru, Indiana, a woman of fine personal characteristics who is the scion of an excellent family. Three children have brightened the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ogborn. The subject is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge, at Converse, Indiana, in which he has always taken considerable interest. The Ogborn family is held in high regard in Kokomo, and their pleasant home is one in which a gracious and generous hospitality is ever in evidence, the members of this household being held in highest esteem by all who know them. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA BY JACKSON MORROW, B. A. ILLUSTRATED VOL. II B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA (circa 1909) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/howard/bios/ogborn301nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb