page_title: Aaron Ogden
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Aaron Ogden / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Aaaron Ogden Monument, First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, NJ
context_page_description: Aaron Ogden was an American soldier, lawyer, United States Senator and the fifth Governor of New Jersey. Ogden is perhaps best known today as the defendant in Gibbons v. Ogden which destroyed the monopoly power of steamboats on the Hudson River in 1824.
context_section_description: Ogden was married to Elizabeth Chetwood (1766–1826), the daughter of John Chetwood, an attorney, and Mary (née Emott) Chetwood (d. 1786). She was the older sister of U.S. Representative and Mayor of Elizabeth William Chetwood (1771–1857). Together, they were the parents of:
  Mary Chetwood Ogden (1789–1863), who was married to George Clinton Barber.
  Phebe Ann Ogden (1790–1865), who served as Vice Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
  Matthias Ogden (1792–1860), who married Lucille Robert.
  John Robert Ogden (1794–1845), who did not marry.
  Elias Bailey Dayton Ogden (1797–1799), who died young.
  Elias Bailey Dayton Ogden (1800–1865), who was named after his deceased brother. Elias, who married three times, served as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1842 until his death in 1865.
  Aaron Ogden Jr. (1803–1803), who died young.
  Ogden died in Jersey City, New Jersey on April 19, 1839.  Ogden's body is interred at the burial ground of the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth.
caption: Aaron Ogden Monument, First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, NJ
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