Bio: Oscar P. Ogilvie, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Arhives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Oscar P. Ogilvie is the editor of the Guardian Journal, at Homer, La., and 
is one of the public-spirited and able newspaper men of this section.  He 
has been familiar with journalistic work from early boyhood, and the paper 
which he is now engaged in publishing is one of the best and neatest local 
papers in the State of Louisiana.  He was left an orphan in his early childhood, 
but even at that day he evinced sterling traits of character, and with the 
energy and perseverance that has ever characterized his efforts, he worked 
his way onward and onward until he is now acknowledged to be one of the leading 
journalists of the State.  He was born in Caddo Parish, La., on October 2, 1864, 
but his father, W. J. Ogilvie, was a native of Georgia, but of Irish descent.  
He grew up in his native State and was married there to Miss Lucy J. Patterson, 
a native of Kentucky, who was reared and educated in that State.  After Mr. 
Ogilvie had farmed in Georgia a few years he moved with his family to Louisiana, 
and about 1842 settled in Caddo Parish, near Shreveport, where he opened up a 
large farm, which he successfully conducted up to the date of his death in 1868, 
having been the owner of a number of slaves prior to the war.  He was a man of 
good parts, his business qualifications being of a high order.  His widow survived 
him about one month, when she, too, passed away, thus leaving Oscar P. an orphan 
at the age of four years.  He remained with an older brother up to the age of 
twelve years, receiving the advantages of the schools of Greenwood, La., and 
Curren, Ill., but when he had attained his thirteenth year he entered a printing 
office at Shreveport, and thoroughly learned the printer's trade, and worked in 
the mechanical department for several years.  He was one of a company that started 
a daily in Shreveport, and of this he was manager for about one year.  In 1889 he 
bought an interest in the Guardian Journal, being first associated with Mr. Seals, 
but a short time afterward purchased this gentleman's interest and took entire 
control of the paper, and is now engaged in publishing one of the breeziest and 
brightest papers of which the State can boast.  He makes a specialty of job work, 
and can show as fine specimens of work as can be found in large cities.  His paper 
is published in the interest of Homer and Claiborne Parish, and as he is one of 
the youngest newspaper men in the State, he deserves the commendation of all for 
the admirable manner in which he conducts his paper.  He has greatly enlarged and 
improved the Guardian Journal, and as he is a man of superior business qualifications 
and excellent habits, he is bound to make a name for himself in the journalistic 
world.  He is a member of the National Typographical Union, and was formerly a 
member of the Shreveport Typographical Union, and served as president of that 
organization.

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