[2] Born in Morristown in the Province of New Jersey, he was the son of Sarah Frances (Ludlow) and Abraham Ogden.

[3][4] His sister, Gertrude Gouverneur Ogden, was married to Joshua Waddington, a founder of the Bank of New York.

[4] Their company succeeded in buying the majority of the Seneca Indians' reservation by the reported use of bribery and intimidation in August 1826.

[12] He was First Judge of the St. Lawrence County Court from 1820 to 1824 and from 1825 to 1829, and he was one of the commissioners to settle the boundary between Canada and the United States.

[13][3] They were the parents of: Ogden died in Montreal in Lower Canada (in modern-day Quebec) on June 9, 1829, and was interred in Brookside Cemetery, Waddington, New York.