Biography

01/19/1791 - 10/29/1882

OGDEN, John Melchior, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, January 19, 1791 in Upper Delaware, Philadelphia County, Pa.; carpenter; surveyor, Fire Association of Philadelphia; director, Penn Township Bank; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1832-1833 term; elected, commissioner, Spring Garden, Philadelphia County (1833-1870); director, Spring Garden Library Company (1835); president, Northern Liberty and Penn Township Railroad Company (1849); director, Spring Garden Institute; director, Northern Dispensary; director, Institution for Feeble Minded Children and the House of Refuge; died, October 29, 1882 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Fair Hill Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.