Tilghman Ogle

    Tilghman Ogle, present County Clerk of Sullivan County, Indiana, is a native of this county, born March 26, 1861, the son of William B. and Anna Eliza (Anderson) Ogle. The father died in 1868. Grandfather Ogle came to Indiana from Ohio at a very early day and settled at Prairieton, Vigo County, where he lived for a short time, and then went back to Ohio to afford his daughters a better opportunity to finish their education. Later he again came to Vigo County, Indiana, where he owned fifteen hundred acres of land. William B. Ogle, father of Tilghman Ogle, was a merchant in Vigo County for a time, and also carried on merchandising in Sullivan County. He was elected as treasurer on the Democratic ticket, serving two terms. The mother was born in January, 1823, and still resides in Sullivan. Her mother died in Sullivan at the extreme old age of ninety-four years. Mr. and Mrs. William B. Ogle were the parents of eight children:

• Belle
• Jacob, now residing in Memphis.
• Charles
• Katie, deceased
• Frank, deceased
• William Baty, Jr., a resident of Ohio.
• Tilghman, of this memoir.
• Elizabeth

    Tighman Ogle attended the public schools of Sullivan and began clerking in a grocery store in 1874, when but thirteen years old. Two years later he went to Terre Haute and there engaged with Car & White, grocers, remaining there until February, 1878. Subsequently he accompanied Mr. White to Carlisle, Indiana, where he was connected with the same  line of business. For the next twenty years he was employed as a clerk in the general store of R. W. Akin, at the end of which long period of service he was elected county clerk of Sullivan County. He was elected on the Democratic ticket, being nominated in the convention against two opponents, and he took his seat in office in 1904. Mr. Ogle is a member of the Odd Fellows order at Carlisle, Lodge No. 50, and has been the Noble Grand; and also of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks at Sullivan.

    He was united in marriage, June 2, 1886, to Mary Ella Speak, who was born at Carlisle, Indiana, June 26, 1869, daughter of James E. and Eliza Speak. The latter was a native of Sullivan County, and both she and her husband are still living at Carlisle. Mrs. Ogle was educated at the public schools of her native place. To Mr. and Mrs. Ogle were born two children, Cornelia, attending high school and Fred. Mr. Ogle belongs to the Christian Church, while his wife is connected with the Methodist Episcopal.

Source: A History of Sullivan County, Indiana. Closing of the first century’s history of the county and showing the growth of its people, institutions, industries and wealth. Thomas J. Wolfe, Editor. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909, page 284-285.