Ogle was born into a well-known English family[1] in Bishopsteignton, near Newton Abbot, Devon, England,[2] on 8 December 1855.
[5] During his editorship, Ogle published four short articles by the young Walter Shaw Sparrow, who was later to become a popular and prolific writer.
Described as a "plain, every-day New England farm", it consisted of about two hundred acres[1] and in 1903, after his death, it was valued at $30,000 in the inventory filed in the Probate Court.
[1] Some reports exaggerated his wealth even further: an Irish newspaper claimed he had bought twenty thousand acres, "to be laid out after the style of an English park, with a game preserve and other features".
[1] After what would turn out to be his final visit to the United States in 1902, he and his wife sailed for Liverpool, England on 19 November 1902 on the steamer RMS Oceanic.