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physician in the continuous practice of medicine in Pennsylvania, west of Huntingdon.      Dr. James Taylor was twice married, first to Mary Matthews, daughter of Archibald and Elizabeth Matthews, by whome there were two sons; the elder died in infancy, and the younger, John Taylor, served through the late rebellion in company E, Eleventh regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer cavalry, and was discharged from the hospital in Alexandria. His second marriage was with Susan Mary Ogden, daughter of Colonel Amos Ogden, and occurred January 10, 1849, and by this marriage there were five sons, viz.: a son who died in infancy; Dr. Amos O. Taylor of Altoona, Pennsylvania; Jeffery W. Taylor, Esq., attorney-at-law, Greensburg, Pennsylvania; Dr. J. Swan Taylor, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Joseph M. Taylor, of West Fairfield, Pennsylvania.      Dr. J. Swan Taylor, by this mother is fifth in lineal descent from Dr. Joseph Ogden, who had been a surgeon on a British man-of-war, and is of that celebrated Scotch-Irish Ogden family of New Jersey. David Ogden, the eminent jurist, ws born in 1707, and graduated from Yale college in 1728. He was judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and died in 1800. Judge Ogden's son, Hon. Abraham Ogden, was the founder of Ogdensburg, New York, and ranked as one of the great lawyers of his day. He was the father of Thomas Ludlow Ogden, who was the law partner of Alexander Hamilton, and the legal adviser of the great "Holland Land company."      Major-General Aaron Ogden, LLD., served with Washington in the Revolutionary war, was governor of New Jersey, and president-general of the "Society of the Cincinnati," from 1829 to 1839, up to the time of his death, April 19, 1839, aged eighty-three years.

John Ogden married Judith Budd. He died in 1683, leaving to survive him four children, viz.: David, Joseph, Richard, and John. David Ogden died in New Jersey in 1767, and his will is probated at Morristown, Morris county, New Jersey. He had eleven children: Gilbert, Elizabeth, Nancy, Mary, Gabriel, David, John, Abigail, Dr. Joseph, Amos, and Nathan. Of David's children, Captain Amos Ogden was in command of the Pennamites in the Wyoming valley. Nathan, David and Gilbert were there also with their brother, Captain Ogden. Nathan was killed. Fort Ogden, at Wilkesbarre, was named in honor of Captain Amos Ogden. The name Joseph Ogden, as one of the slain in battle, is inscribed on one of the slabs of the monument erected at Wyoming to commemorate the terrible Wyoming massacre.      Dr. Joseph Ogden was born in 1716, and died in 1768. He married a Miss Garrabrant, who died December 26, 1815, and Joseph (great-grandfather), who was born in New Jersey, and died in Ligonier valley, April 12, 1815.      Joseph Ogden and Susannah, his wife, who died April 6, 1829, were among the first settlers west of the Allegheny mountains, locating in Ligonier valley, Fairfield township, Westmoreland county, then Bedford county. Joseph Ogden obtained his title papers from George Wood. Wood street, Pittsburg [sic], was called for George Wood, who laid out Pittsburg [sic] for the Penns. Wood was surveyor for Juniate and Bedford counties, was captive in Fort Duquesne, and bought his own ransom.      Joseph Ogden built the first stone house which is still standing in Ligonier valley. He was one of the first ruling elders in old Fairfield Presbyterian church, and his name frequently appears in the published "minutes of

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