Researching Hugh Ogden
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 8467 people with the Ogden surname? In that year Ogden was ranked number 481 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Hugh means "Bright in Mind and Spirit" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Hugh Ogden on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Hugh Ogden and the Ogden Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 7231 people with the Ogden surname in the UK? Ogden is now ranked number 824 for popularity in the UK. |
Ogden Family Tree Databases
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Some Famous People called Hugh Ogden
Hugh Ogden
Hugh Ogden (born March 11, 1937 in Erie, Pennsylvania) was an American poet and educator. Ogden was a 1959 graduate of Haverford College. Ogden received his master’s degree from New York University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He taught at Michigan and then for four decades at Trinity College in Hartford. While at Trinity, Ogden co-founded the College’s creative writing program in 1968.
Ogden has written an estimated 400 to 500 poems, many of which have been published in small presses and magazines, and he has won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships. In 1998, Ogden was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry.
Ogden died on December 31, 2006, after falling through the ice on Rangeley Lake in Oquossoc, Maine.
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