Herbert Gouverneur Ogden. 

 1 846-1 906. 



Herbert Gouverneur Ogden was born in New York 

 April 4, 1846. He descended from Revolutionary stock, 

 Francis Lewis, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, 

 being one of his ancestors. 



His career in the Coast Survey commenced in 1863, when the 

 Civil War was at its height. In common with a number of his 

 brother officers, he was assigned to duty with the army and then 

 with the navy, participating in the dangers and vicissitudes of 

 active warfare. 



In 1865 he served as a topographer on the Nicaragua Expe- 

 dition. 



In 1870 he was a member of the first naval exploring expe- 

 dition to the Isthmus of Darien. 



In 1893 he had charge of a section of the exploratory surveys 

 for locating the international boundary between Alaska and 

 British Columbia. 



He was appointed by the President one of the original mem- 

 bers of the Board on Geographic Names, and continued a mem- 

 ber until the time of his death. 



These were special assignments. In the regular course of 

 his duties in the Survey, as his experience increased with length 

 of service, he showed his versatility by engaging in and eventu- 

 ally directing nearly every one of the many branches of the 

 work. 



In 1880 he was placed in charge of the Engraving Division 

 of the office. This position did not, as its name would imply, 

 consist solely of superintending the work of expert engravers. 

 It involved a knowledge of the whole range of chart construc- 

 tion and publication from the surveying operations in the field 

 to the final verification of the chart from the press. It required 

 an encyclopaedic memory for details both of methods and locali- 



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