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Mason C. Ogg Mr. Ogg was born in Fairview Township, this County,
December 10, 1879. He is the
son of William Marshall Ogg and Harriet Elizabeth (Churchill) Ogg, the father
born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1849, and the mother was born
in Wisconsin in 1851. The paternal
grandparents, George and Lida (Rush) Ogg, were natives of Somerset County,
Pennsylvania, the former born March 18, 1811, and the latter on June 2, 1820. They were married May 11, 1845.
George Ogg was a blacksmith by trade and he always kept a shop in
connection with his farm. About
1861 he brought his family from Pennsylvania to Allamakee County, Iowa, and
there bought a farm. Remaining
there until 1874, he moved with his family to Jasper County and bought one
hundred and sixty acres in Fairview Township.
The death of George Ogg occurred on April 13, 1875, his widow surviving
many years, reaching an advanced age, her death occurring on December 29, 1899. William M. Ogg, father of the
subject, bought one hundred and twenty acres of the old homestead, to which he
later added eighty acres more and in due course of time became well established.
He arid his family are members of the Baptist Church, and in politics he
votes the Republican Ticket. William M. Ogg was married on February
20, 1873, to Harriet E. Churchill, and to this union five children have been
born: Mason C., of this sketch, and
Ethel, who is at home, are the only ones living.
Lyda died when about five years old; Wallace E. died when about eighteen
years of age; Elmer E. died when about fourteen years of age.
In order to give his children proper educational advantages, Mr. Ogg
moved with his family to Des Moines, where he still lives, retired from active
life. Mason C. Ogg grew up on the home farm
and assisted with the general work about the place when a boy.
He had the advantages of good educational training.
He attended the Capital Prairie district school, Jasper County.
He was fourteen years old when the family moved to Des Moines and there
he entered the public schools, later attending the Baptist College in that city,
where he made an excellent record and from which he was graduated in 1901.
He turned his attention to farming after leaving school, beginning
renting his father's farm of two hundred acres in Fairview Township, Jasper
County, and here he has remained, keeping the place well improved and under a
high state of cultivation. He has
met with encouraging success as a general farmer and stock raiser.
He makes a specialty of raising full blood Hereford cattle.
Politically, he
is a Republican and he has served as Township trustee.
Religiously, he belongs to the Baptist Church. Mr. Ogg was married on January 1, 1903, to Olive E. Woodard, who ;was born in Osage, Iowa, the daughter of Otis P. Woodard, who is engaged in the insurance business there. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ogg, Helen Sawyer and Wallace Almon. The Past and Present
of Jasper County, Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-in-Chief, 1912, B. F.
Bowden & Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. |
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