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zinc mines were opened on a peninsula in the 

 Great Salt Lake. 



The organization of Ogden was directed by 

 Brigham Young in 1850; the town was char- 

 tered in 1851 and rechartered in 1861. The 

 commission form of government has been 

 adopted. J.B.L. 



OGDENSBURG, X. Y.. a city in Saint Law- 

 rence County, situated on the northern border 

 of the state, on the Saint Lawrence River, 

 which at this point is more than a mile wide. 

 Here it receives the waters of the Oswegatchie 

 River. Brockville is twelve miles southwest, 

 and Watertown is sixty-five miles southwest. 

 Plattsburg is 143 miles east, and Montreal is 

 150 miles northeast. The city has exceptional 

 transportation facilities; there is steamer com- 

 munication with all important lake and river 

 ports, and direct connection by rail with New 

 York and Boston, the New York Central & 

 Hudson River and the Rutland railways serving 

 the city. Ogdensburg was settled in 1749, was 

 incorporated as a village in 1817 and received 

 its city charter in 1868. The population in- 

 creased from 15,933 in 1910 to 16,718 (Federal 

 estimate) in 1916. The area of the city exceeds 

 four square miles. 



Several fleets of vessels are owned here. 

 Shipping and wholesale trade in grain, lumber, 

 produce and manufactured products are the 

 sources of the city's prosperity. Large quanti- 

 ties of silk are received from the Orient through 

 Canada and sent directly to the silk mills of 

 the Eastern states. The leading manufactures 

 are lumber products, silk shirts, flour, gloves, 

 leather and brass goods. Many of the indus- 

 tri:il establishments utilize the water power 

 afforded by the i 



Ogdensburg has a $265,000 Federal building, 

 a fine town hall, a state armory, a Roman 

 Catholic cathedral, and the Saint Lawrence 

 State Hospital, one of the best equipped insti- 

 tutions in the United States for the treatment 

 of the insane. In addition to its public schools, 



is Saint Mary's Academy, Ogdensburg I 

 Academy and a public library, which occupies a 

 beautiful site on tin n\.-r front. The famous 

 rapids of the Saint Lawn nrr Ki\< r bruin with 

 the Galop Rapids, seven miles below Ogdens- 

 burg, and end with tin- I/idnnr Rapids above 

 Montreal. To the famous Thousand Islands 

 district is a two-hours' ride by boat. W.E.W. 



OGLETHORPE, o'g'l thorp, JAMES EDWARD 

 (1696-1795), an American colonist, founder and 

 first governor of Georgia, was born in London. 

 He entered the British army at the age of four- 



teen and served in campaigns against the Turks 

 in 1716 and 1717. Five years later he became 

 a member of Parliament and proposed to that 

 body the establishment of an American colony 

 for debtors in English prisons. In 1732 he re- 

 ceived a charter from George II for the terri- 

 tory now comprising Georgia, while Parliament 

 granted him $50,000 for expenses. In January, 



OGLETHORPE SEAT 



Monument marking: the spot in Savannah where 

 Oglethorpe landed in America, in 1733. 



1733, he arrived in America with 120 colonists 

 and established his first settlement where Sa- 

 vannah, Ga., now stands. He ruled for nine 

 years with undoubted wisdom, drove the in- 

 vading Spanish back into Florida, and in 1742 

 defeated them so badly at Frederica, Ga., that 

 the colony was safe "from further hostilities. 



In 1743 Oglethorpe found himself so heavily 

 in debt because of his loans to colonists that 

 he was compelled to return to England. There 

 his enemies tried to convict him of cowardice 

 in not capturing Saint Augustine, but he justi- 

 fied himself. With the other trustees of Geor- 

 gia he resigned the charter to England in 1752, 

 and the colony became a royal province. A 

 book entitled A True and Historical Narrative 

 of Georgia, written in 1740 by three Georgia 

 exiles, Tailfer, Anderson and Douglas, against 

 the methods of Oglethorpe, is considered the 

 lir.-t printed protest of Americans against the 

 British colonial policy. 



Oglethorpe University. The original institu- 

 t n in l>r:iring this nainr was founded at Atlanta, 

 Georgia, in 1835, but was obliged to close its 

 doors during the War of Secession. In 1913 a 

 successful campaign was begun for funds for a 

 nrw O^lrtlmrpr I'mvrrsity. which was opened 

 in 1916. It is regarded as a continuation of tin- 

 earlier ones. 



Conult Cooper's /owe* Oglethorpe. the Founder 

 of Georgia; Brace's Life of General Oglcthorpc, 

 ikcra of America Series. 



0. HENRY, t!i' pen name of WILLIAM SYD- 

 m humorist and story 

 r Sec POBTEB, WILLIAM SYDNEY. 



