Dates

• 1974

Extent

From the Collection: 18 Linear Feet (Edwin Bennett Ogden, Jr., was born August 26, 1904, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Edwin Ruthven Bennett Ogden and Mary Curlett Broderick Ogden. His siblings were: James Manning Ogden, Carter Harrison Ogden, and Louisa Mary Ogden. After completing St. Joseph's Catholic High School, Natchez, Mississippi, Ed Ogden joined his family in Havana, Cuba, where they had moved in 1922. Ed Ogden joined the family business, Ogden & Company, a merchandise brokerage firm specializing in food products from various countries including Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Spain, in addition to the United States of America. In the 1940's rice became one of the firm's major products. In 1936, Ogden married Nancy Hamilton Allen of New Orleans, Louisiana. They had four daughters: Nancy Nicholson Ogden, Mary Carter Ogden, Anne Louisa Wilkinson Ogden, and Ellen Allen Ogden. In 1960, a year after the Cuban Revolution, Ogden and his family moved back to the United States to his family's ancestral roots home of Natchez, Mississippi. At this time, Ogden started Ogden & Company in Natchez, continuing the firm's history as a merchandise brokerage company. Ogden also expanded his interests in cattle farming, land-woodland-wildlife conservation, and politics. Ogden died September 11, 1981, and is buried at the Ogden Family Cemetery on Greenfield Plantation in Natchez, Mississippi. This collection mainly consists of the business records of Edwin B. Ogden, who was active in the rice brokerage field. He had a close connection with the Godchaux Family and Louisiana State Rice Milling Company. [See Coll. 157, Godchaux Family/Louisiana Rice Milling Company Records] This collection was donated by Mrs. Edwin B. Ogden, Jr. )

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

From the Collection: Spanish; Castilian