The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-11

Howell more than a hundred resi-
dents OF Ogden gathered at the Her.
mitage in Ogden canyon last evening
TO meet Mr.. r. c. Elliott and hear him
tell the story of the life OF Peter
Skcne ogden. IL introducing Mr.. Ell
liott. Judge Howell said:
THE master poet OF our English
tongue, Ia his wondrous tragedy OF
youth and passion. has said:
What's in a name? That which we
call rose
BY any other name would smell as
sweet
And yet the nomenclature of the
things we like and the appellaJions of
the people we love become so init
timntely associated in our minds that
We scarcely think OF such things or OF
such persons without instinctvcly re
calling their names. SO it seemed TO
me appropriate that. in the midst of
the modern comforts and pleasures Of
this beautiful mountain retreat OF
ours, you should hear the story of the
life of the early trapper who first dis
covered the country living in this
vicinity and who probably was the
first white man TO blaze a pathway
down this mountain pass. whose
name has become SO linked with II
and with the city which we call our
home that both will always he so
known. 1t is my pleasure. therefore,
TO present to you Mr. Elliott who
will speak to YOU on the subject OF
Peter Skene Ogden"
Mr.. Elliott then spoke interesting
~ and at length upon the life of Peter
Skene Ogden In the couCse of his re-
emarks, he made the assertion that
Peter Skene ogden was undoubtedly
in the vicinity of Ogden and Ogden
canyon as early as the year 1924.
which was the same year that
Bridger is reported TO have diScov-
cred the Great Salt Lake. The Jour
nal which was kept by ogden upon
his various trapping expeditions are
some of them eXtant, but unfortu-
nately that for the year 1893 has not
yet been located and, therefore. it is
impossible to say whether or not OC-
den ante-dated Bridger in the discov-
cry of the lake. 1t is, however more
than likely that Ogden saw the lake
the first year he was here, which
would be about the same time as
Bridger. If not before Ogden's Jour
nails for the following year show that
he was operating lnNthiS vicinity in
command of the trappers OF the Hud-
son Bay company, and IL is as a re-
suit of OgdenS activity in this region
that Ogden's Hole acquired It's name
The precise details of the occasion of
Ogden'S/ name being so much asso-
ciated with this vicinity are not
known, but the first name which we
learn is that OF Ogden's Hole prob
ably given because the trail used by
the trappers was through what is
now North Ogden canyon. the present
Ogden canyon being impossible for
horses at that ,ime From Ogden
Hole both Ogden canyon and ogden
CITY take their name though the pre-
else reason for it is not yet known
The journals kept by ogden were
written by him BY the side of the
evening campfire on books made of
beaver skin and arc now i'm the hands
OF the present Hudson Bay company
OF London. Those journals which
have been unearthed have been copied
as far as possible and are now being
published by the Oregon Historical
society. The ink used in the journals
has blurred and run. so il Is very
difficult to decipher them, and. there.
fore, not all of Ogden'S wanderings
can he followed, but there is this
mech certainty about the matter. that
ogden was one OF the first white men
to gaze upon the Great Salt Lake and
also probably one of the first white
men who lived in the region around
Ogden and ii Is. therefore, appropri-
ate that his name should be perma-
nently associated with it
Peter Skene Ogden" said Mr. FL
llotti was born in the City of Que
bee in the year 1874, the exact date
not yet having been traced Ills
father was then a Judge in the Admir-
allty Court at Quebec and leading
L. Il. Loyalist Of Canada His moth.
or was Sarah Hanson ogden from
Livingston Manor near New York
City. sister Of Captain Jonn Wilkin-
son Hanson of the British army His
grandfather was Judge David OGDEN
OF Newark, n. J., a graduate from
Yale college in the class of 1928
Judge Isaac Ogden the father of
Peter Skene. graduated from Kings
college now Columbia university. of
New York City. During the Revolu.
tion the family split. Isaac and two
other brothers becoming Royalists
lsaoc lost his property by confisca-
ton and fled to New York. and from
there 10 England, in 1888. but In l7SS
was by King George appointed to
the judgshID in Canada. Soon after
the birth of Peter Skene he was pro-
moted to he Puisne judge at Montreal
and removed there or the two broth
srs who espoused the side OF the col
onies, Abraham became a close ad-
wiser 10 General Washington. and his
house at Morristown was the head
quarters at one time. He was
prominent attorney and appointed as
district attorney for New Jersey by
President Washington The other
Samuel, purchased land in Northern