Biography

1851 - 02/26/1938

OGLE, John G., a Representative from Somerset County; born in Somerset, Somerset County, Pa., circa 1851; graduated, Millersville State Normal School (now Millersville University of Pennsylvania); graduated, Bethany College; page, United States House of Representatives; attorney; unsuccessful campaign, prothonotary, Somerset County (1878); unsuccessful campaign, District Attorney, Somerset County (1880); counsel, Somerset Coal Company and Consolidation Coal Company; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1920 and 1922; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1924); counsel, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, western division (1927-1938); died, February 26, 1938 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Union Cemetery, Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.