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HONORABLE FRANK BURROUGHS OGDEN
Frank Burroughs Ogden, attorney, son of Jonathan T. and Rosalie (Burroughs) Ogden, was born in Newark, New Jersey, on April 26, 1858; deceased, 1918.
He received his education in the Oakland public schools and McClures Military Academy. Though he received no degree, he became a jurist and public speaker of ability; was admitted to the California Bar in 1882, and in 1887 was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of California in and for the County of Alameda, which position he held until his death in 1918.
Judge Ogden held membership in the Athenian-Nile Club of Oakland; Masons, Elks, and Odd Fellows (Grand Master of the Odd Fellows of California, 1907-08).
Hunting and fishing were his principal diversions and he was a rifle and shotgun enthusiast of exceptional ability.
Judge Ogden married Laura Irene Macdonald in 1886 and they were the parents of four children: Marguerite, born in 1888 (died, 1918); Robert Clarence, born in 1889; Rosalie Laura, born in 1891; Frank Macdonald, born in 1895 (died, 1948). Of his four children, three became lawyers. His oldest daughter was one of the first and among the best known of women attorneys in California. His younger son later succeeded his father as a jurist to occupy, in the year 1930, the same court room with the same clerk, bailiff and shorthand reporter, over which his father had presided twelve years previously. At the time of his election, this son was the youngest Superior Judge in the State of California. Robert Clarence Ogden is in practice of the law in San Francisco, California.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 353, C. W. Taylor Publ., Palo Alto,
California, 1953.
© 2014 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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