OGDEN, Robert B.: Died 1906

OGDEN, VOGEL

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 9/28/2016 at 07:09:02

TWO DEATHS AT KEOKUK
One of Decedents Came West to Start a Paper At Keosauqua.

Simon Vogel of Keokuk died suddenly Saturday. Mr. Vogel formerly had a clothing store at the corner of Third and Main, and was well known to all the older business men of this county. Vogel went to his room for a nap, as was his habit. An hour after he awoke deathly sick at his stomach. He got up but fell on the floor, and died before a physician could be called. Heart failure was the cause of death.

Also Robert B. Ogden, who published the second Keokuk newspaper, in 1847, died Saturday at his home in New Jersey. Back in 1846 Robert Ogden and his brother left their home in Springfield, Ohio, to come to Keosauqua to establish a newspaper. Dr. Elbert of this county had been back to Ohio on a visit and convinced the young men that there was a good opening for a newspaper here. But they stopped at Keokuk and then went to Burlington and then to Iowa City, where the legislature was in session. At Burlington they did not get a favorable report of Dr. Elbert politically. It is not recorded that they eve came to Keosauqua, but located at Keokuk. Their paper was consolidated with the Des Moines Valley Whig, which in 1849 was moved by Howell & Cowles from Keosauqua to Keokuk. Mr. Ogden was 83 years old.

**Handwritten: St. Line Dem. Wed. 12 Dec. 1906

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book G, Page 219, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA