Major Richard Livingston Ogden, (USA)

Major Richard Livingston Ogden, (USA)

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Civil War: Assistant Quartermaster, 14th U.S. Infantry

Commissioned at Presidio of San Francisco, California, as 1st Lieutenant, 14th U.S. Infantry 14 May 1861; promoted captain and Assistant Quartermaster, U.S. Army, 5 August 1861; resigned 14 May 1864 (Heitman, 1:757; Orton, p. 23.)

"Supplies for Company A were issued by Captain Richard L. Ogden at San Francisco and shipped to San José on the steamer Sophie McLean. The lengthy invoice listed tin cups, tin plates, knives, and forks, blankets, greatcoats, cavalry jackets, bed sacks, spades, camp kettles, cavalry boots, and dozens of other articles. Included were one field bugle with extra mouthpiece and one trumpet with cord and tassel, one hundred numbers "1," also one hundred letters "A" together with a First Sergeant's sash. Later in the year uniforms and articles were issued. The horse equipment for each soldier consisted of saddle with stirrups and stirrup leathers, six coat straps, saddle bags, girth, surcingle and one carbine socket and strap." (Maloney, Alice B. 1943. Ranchero Cavalry. The Western Horseman [May-June, 1943] vol. 8, pp. 3-18, 39-43)
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OGDEN— In this city. October 3, 1900, Richard L, beloved husband of Isabel P. Ogden, and father of Mrs. R. H. Pease and Mrs. S. L. Abbott Jr. (New York papers please copy.) Services will be held to-morrow (Friday), at 2 o'clock, at 2600 Pacific avenue. Interment private. (San Francisco Call, October 4, 1900, 11:3)

FAMOUS BOAT BUILDER AND FINANCIER IS DEAD Commodore R. L. Ogden, One of the Oldest Yachtsmen on the Bay, Passes Away

By the death in this city on Wednesday last of Commodore Richard L. Ogden, the oldest and best known yachtsman of San Francisco Bay passed away. He was in the fifties the owner of the then famous sloop Restless, the first pleasure yacht seen on these waters. It was brought from New York on a ship's deck. In 1868 he built the large schooner-yacht Peerless, one of the handsomest yachts ever built here and one that took part in the first regular regatta ever sailed on this coast. She was sold by him to the King of Samoa and became the "Samoan Navy." When the San Francisco Yacht Club was reorganized in 1875 he was elected commodore, an office he held for several years. About that time Commodore Ogden also built the fine steam yacht Quickstep and the steam launch Hi-Yah. Commodore Ogden came to California in 1852 as a major in the United States army. He was at that time quartermaster of the Department of the Pacific, a position which he held for about ten years. That was during the Indian wars in Arizona and the Northwest. During that period the supplies for the army for California, Arizona, Oregon and Washington were all provided from San Francisco, and he handled many millions of Government money. When he resigned from the army he became associated with the late William C. Ralston of the Bank of California in a number of mining and industrial enterprises. He was for some years manager of the Kimball Manufacturing Company, at that time the largest industrial concern in this city. At the time of the failure of the Bank of California much of Commodore Ogden's fortune was lost when the Kimball Company went down with the other Ralston enterprises. Commodore Ogden was always a man of affairs, active and energetic in all he undertook. Of a very genial and with a generous nature, he will be missed by a large circle of friends both in this city and in New York. He leaves a wife and two daughters—Mrs. R.H. Pease and Mrs. S. L. Abbot Jr. The funeral, which was held from his late residence at 2600 Pacific avenue on Friday, was strictly private, only the immediate relatives being present. The body was interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery. (San Francisco Call, October 7, 1900, 23:4)
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When Laurel Hill Cemetery closed, he was reinterred at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park.

Biography by Steve