Butte County Biographies

SAMUEL OGDEN 

Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson

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was born at Lancashire, in the year 1832.  His father died when he 
was seven years of age, and his mother, accompanied by her son, came to the 
United States in 1842, and located at Warsaw, Illinois.  Samuel started out for 
himself when he was ten years of age, and worked in that part of Louis, Sierra 
county.  In 1861, he started a fast-freight line from Marysville to St. Louis, 
which he ran till 1865.  He went to ranching at that time, near Dayton.  In 
1879, he bought a claim on Middle Butte creek, two miles south of Dogtown, where 
he proposes to make a home.
 
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present 
Time - Vol. II -  Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San 
Francisco, Cal., 1882.