Genealogy Report: Descendants of Simon Ogburn
Descendants of Simon Ogburn
415.Jordan10 Ogburn (Simeon Radsdale9, Jacob8, James7, John6, John5, Nicholas4, Nicholas3, Simon2, Simon1) was born About 1841.He married Tabitha Nevels About 1865.She was born About 1841.
More About Jordan Ogburn and Tabitha Nevels:
Marriage: About 1865
Child of Jordan Ogburn and Tabitha Nevels is:
| 626 | i. | Mary Ever Lela11 Ogburn, born 08 February 1873 in Dale, Alabama.She married John Thomas Sellers About 1893; born About 1873. |
| More About John Sellers and Mary Ogburn: Marriage: About 1893 |
More About James L Ogburn:
Burial: Glover Cemetery, Reynolds, Georgia
More About Mary Drucilla Glover:
Burial: Glover Cemetery, Reynolds, Georgia
More About James Ogburn and Mary Glover:
Marriage: 18 July 1880, Taylor County, Georgia
Children of James Ogburn and Mary Glover are:
| 627 | i. | Melissa11 Ogburn, born About 1881. |
| More About Melissa Ogburn: Burial: Glover Cemetery, Reynolds, Georgia |
| 628 | ii. | India Ogburn, born About 1884 in Taylor County, Georgia; died About 1886 in Taylor County, Georgia. |
| More About India Ogburn: Age Lived: 2 years Burial: Glover Cemetery, Reynolds, Georgia |
| 629 | iii. | Florine Ogburn, born 1886. |
426.William10 Ogburn (William Franklin Eldridge9, Littleberry B.8, James7, John6, John5, Nicholas4, Nicholas3, Simon2, Simon1) was born About 1858.
Children of William Ogburn are:
| 630 | i. | Louise11 Ogburn, born About 1880.She married James Council About 1900; born About 1880. |
| More About James Council and Louise Ogburn: Marriage: About 1900 |
| 631 | ii. | Otis Ogburn, born About 1882.He married Mattie Hartley About 1905; born About 1882. |
| More About Otis Ogburn and Mattie Hartley: Marriage: About 1905 |
Notes for Charlton Greenwood Ogburn II:
Charlton Ogburn, a corporation lawyer (as well as general counsel for the American Federation of Labor and the National Planning Association)
In 1953, Dorothy Ogburn and Charlton Ogburn Sr. published This Star of England, a 1300-page Oxfordian tome which was a precursor to their son Charlton Jr.'s The Mysterious William Shakespeare thirty years later.
More About Charlton Greenwood Ogburn II:
Occupation: Corporation Lawyer
Notes for Dorothy Stevens:
Dorothy Stevens Ogburn, a writer of mystery novels, had collaborated on the massive This ‘Star of England’, published in 1952 and also presenting the case for de Vere as Shakespeare.
In 1953, Dorothy Ogburn and Charlton Ogburn Sr. published This Star of England, a 1300-page Oxfordian tome which was a precursor to their son Charlton Jr.'s The Mysterious William Shakespeare thirty years later.
More About Dorothy Stevens:
Occupation: Author
More About Charlton Ogburn and Dorothy Stevens:
Marriage: 08 June 1910
Child of Charlton Ogburn and Dorothy Stevens is:
| 632 | i. | Charlton11 Ogburn, born 1911 in Atlanta, Georgia; died 19 October 1998 in Beaufort, South Carolina.He married (1) Mary Cornelia Aldis Aft. 1940; born About 1912.He married (2) Vera M Weidman 1951; born About 1912. |
| Notes for Charlton Ogburn: Charlton Ogburn, Jr., is the author of a dozen books and of many contributions to leading magazines. His literary output is distinguished by its variety of subject-matter. His account of a semi-guerrilla regiment in Burma in World War II, in which he served as a communications platoon-leader-The Marauders--probably was his best-known work, having been a choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club and been made into a motion picture starring Jeff Chandler by Warner Brothers. His account of his travels along the largely deserted north eastern shore in The Winter Beach- is considered a classic of nature-writing. In his latest and most ambitious undertaking--which followed a book on American railroads for the National Geographic Society--he explored in 800 pages the puzzle termed by Ralph Waldo Emerson "the first literary problem." The case argued in "The- Mysterious- William- Shakespeare-: The Myth and the Reality", is that the immortal poet-dramatist was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, forced to mask his identity by the unyielding conventions of his class and the powerful self-interest of the Queen and those closest to her. Published in 1984, the book led to Charlton Ogburn's appearance in a debate on William F. Buckley's "Firing Line," to a mock trial of Shakespeare's identity before three Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court and another before three of their British equivalents in London and a television documentary, "The Shakespeare Mystery," on the "Frontline" program. Charlton’s parents had earlier been active in this cause célèbre-. His father Charlton Ogburn, a corporation lawyer (as well as general counsel for the American Federation of Labor and the National Planning Association) and his mother, Dorothy Stevens Ogburn, a writer of mystery novels, had collaborated on the massive This ‘Star of England’, published in 1952 and also presenting the case for de Vere as Shakespeare. Charlton Ogburn, Jr., was born in Atlanta in 1911, the offspring of several generations of Georgians. However, after an early childhood in Savannah, he grew up mostly in New York. Graduating cum- laude from Harvard in 1932, he worked briefly at the Viking Press before fulfilling a youthful dream by journeying to and up the Amazon River for a client of his father's with gold-mining interests. The result, many years later, was his novel The- Gold of the- River- Sea-, called "pure treasure" in the New York Times. Meanwhile, in his twenties, he had worked as a writer for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and a reviewer at the Book-of-the- month Club. In World War II he spent four and a half years in the Army, progressing from private to captain in Military Intelligence. Eleven years in the Department of State followed his return to civilian life during which Ogburn worked in Far and Middle Eastern affairs. In 1947 his duties took him to Java with the Security Council's Committee of Good Offices in the Dutch-Indonesian conflict. There he met his future wife, Vera M. Weidman, who was serving in the U.S. Consulate General in Batavia, as Jakarta was then called. Back in the United States, they were married in 1951 and lived for thirty years in. Fairfax County, Virginia. In 1951-52, Charlton was delegated to attend the National War College. Charlton's career as a writer was launched with "The White Falcon", a story published by Houghton Mifflin in 1955 after appearing in The Saturday Evening Post as "The Awakening" and later being televised by Walt Disney. (In 1987 it would be selected for Junior Great Books.) His cover-story in Harper's on "Merrill's Marauders" in 1957 led to the offer of an advance by Harper & Brothers. on a book on the subject. Ogburn seized the opportunity to quit the government and devote himself to writing. Several of the books that followed would testify to an addiction to birds that he had acquired at the age of eleven. In 1982, the Ogburn's moved to Beaufort, South Carolina. |
| More About Charlton Ogburn: Individual Note: 1932, Graduating cum- laude from Harvard Military service: WWII, communications platoon leader Occupation: Author |
| More About Charlton Ogburn and Mary Aldis: Marriage: Aft. 1940 |
| More About Charlton Ogburn and Vera Weidman: Marriage: 1951 |
Notes for William Fielding Ogburn:
Of Professor Ogburn it was said
'Ogburn was not only one of the outstanding sociologists of his generation, but also one of sociology’s all time greats. For he made a major contribution to the transition of sociology from a field of social speculation to a science based upon empirical research. '
William Fielding Ogburn was Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago from 1927 - 1951 and was particularly known for his application of statistical methods to the problems of social sciences and for his idea of ‘culture lag’ in society's adjustment to technological and other changes.
His most important contribution to the public service was probably his service, following negotiations with President Hoover at The White House, as Director of Research of President Herbert Hoover’s Research Committee on U.S. Social Trends (1930-1933) which amongst other things greatly influenced censuses of the USA
He was born Butler, Georgia, June 29, 1886, the son of Charlton Greenwood Ogburn, a planter and merchant. He married Rubyn Reynolds in 1910; they had two sons, Howard Reynolds, who died in 1949 in the and William Fielding. Professor Ogburn died in Tallahassee, Florida in 1959.
During his lifetime he spent much time in investigating researching the genealogy of the name of Ogburn in the USA and in the UK and created a valuable research archive.
Some of his key appointments were as follows:
Instructor in economics, politics and history at Princeton in 1911
Professor of sociology and economics in 1912 at Reed College (Portland, Oregon.) where he taught until 1917.
Professor of sociology at the University of Washington,(1917-1918)
Examiner and head of the cost-of-living department of the National War Labor Board (1918-1919) and special agent of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Professor of sociology at Columbia University where he remained 1919 - 1927
Professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. He remained there from 1927 until his retirement in 1951.
After retirement he became:
Visiting professor of sociology at Florida State University (1953-1959)
Professor of American History and Institutions at the Indian School of International Studies at the University of Delhi (1956-57)
Visiting Professor at Nuffield College, Oxford (1952-1953),
He also lectured at the university of Calcutta (1952)
He also travelled extensively through Asia, the south west Pacific, Europe, and Latin America, visiting England and France as early as 1906.
Amongst other appointments which W. F.Ogburn held, he was:
Editor of the Journal of American Statistical Association 1920 -1926
President of the American Sociological Society in 1929
President of the American Statistical Association 1931
Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Census of the American Statistical Association. Vice-President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1932
Chairman of the Social Science Research Council 1937 -1939
President of the Society for the History of Technology 1959
consultant to a range of government agencies.
Professor Ogburn was the author of a large number of important books and scientific publications. His noteworthy publications included:
‘American Marriage and Family Relationships’ (with Groves) 1928,
‘Social Characteristics of Cities’ 1937,
‘The Social Effects of Aviation’ 1946,
‘Technology and the Changing Family’ (with Nimkoff) 1953.
He was also in demand as a labor mediator.
During his life W. F.Ogburn, who was a direct descendant of Symon Ogbourne who came to America in the mid 17th century, spent much time and effort in researching family history of the Ogburn's in the United States, and in a search for the origins of his ancestors in the United Kingdom, where he commissioned extensive examinations of archives and church registers of births and marriages.
Amongst the most valuable and extensive searches which he commissioned was undertaken by a researcher Ethel Stokes in the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, London in 1928 which revealed numerous references between 1228 and 1483 to the name of Okebourne (as the present day names of Ogbourne / Ogburn were then known) in official records, see attached.
Many of the 15th and 16th century English wills which can be viewed elsewhere in this web site were gleaned from his research papers, which also record correspondence in the early 1930s with the College of Arms. ‘Portcullis’ (an officer of the College) advised that ‘no Armorial Bearings were granted to Sir William Ogborne, Sheriff of London’ but states that Sir William was knighted on 31st January 1726-7, and in 1932 ‘Windsor Herald’ advised that an examination of ‘the whole of the records of the College shows that no arms have ever been recorded to any family of the name. [of Ogburn or similar]’
During the period in the early 1950s when Professor Ogburn was visiting professor at Nuffield College, Oxford he took the opportunity to renew his efforts to find a link in the UK, particularly trying to find the origins of Symon Ogbourne, and commissioned extensive searches in parish records in Wiltshire and neighboring counties. One of the ironies of this search is that the records of at least 36 Wiltshire parishes were examined for records of Ogbourne's, the most fruitful of which revealed two relevant entries.
Somehow Professor Ogburn missed enquiring into the records of Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, (approximately 30 miles from Oxford) which would have revealed some 120 births and 50 marriages, and the existence of Ogbourne's living there at that time, including the writer as a child. Had he obtained information from Wootton Bassett he would no doubt have found the information of significant interest, but it would not have revealed the origins of the Symon that he sought. It is interesting to muse that had the researches had taken a slightly different course one or more of the Ogbourne families then living in Wootton Bassett might have received a visit from the distinguished American professor, though at that time they had no knowledge of their ancestors, though always wondered what connection there might be with the nearby villages of Ogbourne.
Professor Ogburn also visited the villages of Ogbourne, including one such visit which his wife wrote about in her book ‘As I Was Told’
Whilst drawing a blank on Symon, Professor Ogburn’s records show details of births and marriages in the 17th century in Hillingdon and Uxbridge in Middlesex, which include references to Samuels and Johns (for details see Origins in the UK section). This family appear to be the possible origin of the other major lines of Ogbourne's/Ogburn's in the USA, though it is uncertain what information Professor Ogburn had of that line at that time, and therefore the significance may have been overlooked.
It is also evident that the net was also cast towards Scotland, displaying the thoroughness of his researches for which he became famous in the field of sociology. However in a letter dated 6th April 1928 Mr J. McLeod of the Scottish Record Society in Edinburgh advised that ‘the name of Ogburn does not appear Scotch’ and that in the Society’s records ‘the name does not once occur’. The letter however includes a recommendation to contact Miss Ethel Stokes, (see above) who was clearly able to be of more assistance.
This work in turn inspired his son Fielding Ogburn, who with his wife Patricia published two volumes of detailed information about Ogburn's in the USA. Early in 1995 Fielding Ogburn kindly made available copies of his father’s United Kingdom research papers to John Ogbourne in the UK. The information in those records, and the links with historical events which became evident from many of the ancient references led John Ogbourne to create a newsletter called ‘The Ogbourne Chronicles’, the first edition of which was published in July 1995. The interest shown by Ogbourne's & Ogburn's in England and the USA in this publication in turn lead to the creation of the ‘Ogbourne Chronicles’ web site.
More About William Ogburn and Rubyn Reynolds:
Marriage: 10 September 1910, Rome, Georgia
Children of William Ogburn and Rubyn Reynolds are:
| 633 | i. | Howard Reynolds11 Ogburn, born 13 April 1912 in Atlanta, Georgia; died 11 October 1949 in Rangoon, Burma. |
| Notes for Howard Reynolds Ogburn: Died in Burma while working for the United Nations, Never married. |
| 634 | ii. | William Fielding Ogburn, Jr, born 20 August 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died Aft. 1980.He married Frances Patricia Daly 26 September 1942 in Chicago, Illinois; born 27 November 1920 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa; died Aft. 1980. |
| Notes for William Fielding Ogburn, Jr: Fielding Ogburn, who with his wife Patricia published two volumes of detailed information about Ogburn's in the USA. Early in 1995 Fielding Ogburn kindly made available copies of his father’s United Kingdom research papers to John Ogbourne in the UK. The information in those records, and the links with historical events which became evident from many of the ancient references led John Ogbourne to create a newsletter called ‘The Ogbourne Chronicles’, the first edition of which was published in July 1995. The interest shown by Ogbourne's & Ogburn's in England and the USA in this publication in turn lead to the creation of the ‘Ogbourne Chronicles’ web site. |
| More About William Ogburn and Frances Daly: Marriage: 26 September 1942, Chicago, Illinois |