[1][2] His father was James Sherman Ogden and his mother, Beulah Maria Carter.
[1] It was the latter who suggested he do a PhD in psychology under the supervision of Oswald Külpe, a long-time friend of Titchener's.
[1][2] Upon completion of his PhD, he returned to the United States and served as Max Friedrich Meyer's assistant at the University of Missouri from 1903 to 1905.
[1] Shortly after, Ogden became chair of the Department of Education at his alma mater, Cornell University, where he taught until his death in 1959.
[1] Meanwhile, Ogden was a Visiting Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in spring 1923.
[1] He died of carcinoma of the pancreas on March 2, 1959, at the Tompkins County Memorial Hospital in Ithaca, New York.