Tulare County Biographies

ALBERT GALLATIN OGILVIE

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Ohio has contributed as generously to the good citizenship of California as any 
other state in the Union, and the quality of its contribution does not suffer by 
comparison with that of any other. Albert Gallatin Ogilvie, a son of Ohio, who 
has become successful in Tulare county, Cal., was born in Delaware county March 
25, 1856, a son of Johnson and Margaret (Norman) Ogilvie, who were born and 
brought up in Coshocton county, in the Buckeye state. He was an attendant of a 
country grammar school near his home until in 1874, when he was eighteen years 
old.
Early in life Mr. Ogilvie familiarized himself with the details of farming and 
of the development, handling and sale of nursery stock, and these interests have 
commanded his attention during most of his active life. Fraternally he 
affiliates with the Woodmen of the World, the Knights of Pythias and the 
Artisans. In his religious adherence he is a Methodist, having identified 
himself with the Methodist Episcopal church of Alhambra, Los Angeles county, 
Cal. Politically his alliances are with the Republican party. Taking a deep and 
abiding interest in everything that pertains to the welfare and prosperity of 
the people of California and the United States, he has believed that they could 
be promoted better through the activities of that party than by means of any 
other influence. Personally his public spirit has been many times exerted for 
the good of the community. In fact he is responsive to every legitimate demand 
upon him in behalf of the general prosperity.
June 21, 1896, Mr. Ogilvie married Mrs. Sarah Frances (Jasper) Askin, daughter 
of James A. and Margaret E. Jasper, their marriage having been solemnized at 
Lemon Cove, Cal. He has children named as follows : Harry J., who married Cora 
Blackburn; Addie F., Howard J., Laura A., Benjamin A., William J., Oscar O., 
Fred N., J. Raymond and J. Alden. Harry J. and Addie F. were born of a former 
marriage. By her first marriage Mrs. Ogilvie had three children: Elbert Leroy 
Askin Margaret Myrl, now the wife of Frank L. Atwood, and Dora Bernice.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 649-650