California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


JOHN H. OGLE. To John H. Ogle belongs the distinction of having bought the second lot 
sold in the town of Le Grand, Merced county, Cal, and he has been successfully engaged in 
business here ever since the town was started. A good mechanic and an expert blacksmith and 
wagon-maker, he has had broad experience in this line of work and is now the owner and pro- 
prietor of a fully equipped blacksmith and wagon-shop where he does general repair work 
of all kinds. He was born in Cumberland county, Pa., July 26, 1862, a son of J. H. and Minnie 
(Buckingham) Ogle, the former a brick mason by occupation. Soon after the birth of John H., 
the father enlisted in the Union army and served three years and six months as a private in the 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. In 1863 his wife died when John H. was but six months old. 
Some time after the close of the war, the Ogle family moved to Missouri. John H., of 
this review, left home in 1880, at which time he traveled over various parts of Mexico, Colorado, 
Arizona and Texas, and on May 21, 1881, he touched California soil. Spending six weeks in 
Los Angeles, he went from place to place, and the following year found him in Merced county, 
engaged as a journeyman blacksmith at Plainsberg. He was subsequently located in Selma 
for one year, and at one time owned a blacksmith shop in Raymond, Madera county, where 
he carried on a good business for four years, prior to locating at Le Grand in business for 
himself. He married Mrs. Lou A. (Kelley) Footman, and they have two children, J. Kirk 
and Lillie A. Politically Mr. Ogle is a stanch Republican, and fraternally is allied with the 
Woodmen of the World and Modern Woodmen of America. As a business man he is methodical, 
thorough, successful, and as a citizen he is a highly esteemed factor in the history of LeGrand.