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Show HOWELL PAKTY AT ' Tilt HERMITAGE T. C. Elliott, Historian, Guest of Honor, Gives a Biographical Sketch of Peter Skene Ogden, the Explorer, One of the First Whilo " Men to Set Foot on Ogden Soil. i I New York and colonized It and fcu-id-cd tire city of Ogdcnburg. "The name Skene came from outside out-side the family. Another prominent I'. K. loyalist was JucIko Skene, who acted as godfather to this, hi-! a.;.o-clate's a.;.o-clate's youngest son. The name U properly spelled Skene, but was often misspelled Skeen. "Peter Skene was undoubtedly educated edu-cated In a private family, bit early lu life began his career In the fur trade as a clerk in the office of John Jacob Astor. at Montreal. He also began the study of Jaw and acquired some knowledge of legal phrases, but In isil at the ace of 17. obtained 1 a position as clerk with the North-I I wett company, prohablv through his I brother, who was a prominent attorney attor-ney for that company. He was located locat-ed until 1718 at Isle a La Crosse Fort in southern Athabasca. This locality lakes Its name from the game of La j Crosse, which the Indiaus there were I playing when first . discovered. He participated In many exciting events in the region of Isle a la Crosse. Ross Cox gives a very Interesting description descrip-tion of him there. "In 118 he was transferred to the Columbia and arrived at Fort Gectge ( Astoria In June. On the way he ha'd an cnc unter with the Indians at the Walla Walla river and perhaps assisted In the bu'lding of the fort of that name that summer. He spent two years with tiappinc parties in the Cowlitz and Chehallio and Wlllapa neighborhoods, with headquarters at Kort George, and the next two years at the Interior forts of Spokane and I Flathe.nl In the fall of 1S22 lie went , to Canada and that winter to London j called there by the 111. health of his I father and the merger of the two fur companies. In the summer r.f iH2?, he returned 10 the Culumb'a !n charge of the fall express from New York fae- As the guests of Judge and Mrs. Howell, more than a hundred re.!-dents re.!-dents of Ogden gathered at the Her-iriitage Her-iriitage In Ojiden canyon last evening to meet Mr. T, C. Elliott and hear him j tell the story of the life of Peter I Skene Ogden. Is Introducing Mr. Elliott, El-liott, Judge Unwell said: "The master poet of our Entrlish tongue, i?i his wondrous tragedy of youth and passion, has said: "'What's In a name? That which we call a rose Dy any other name would smell as sweet.' "And yet the nomenclature of the things we like and the appellations of the people we love become o Intl-tlmnlely Intl-tlmnlely associated In our minds that we scarcely think of such things or of such persons without instinctively re-Calling 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, ,011 should hear the story of the life of the early trapper alio first discovered dis-covered the country lying In this vicinity, and wlo probably was the first white man to blaze a pathway down this mountain pass, whose name has Income so linked with it and with the city which we call our home that both will always be so known. It 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 Interestingly Interesting-ly and at length upon the lif? of peter LSkene Ogden. In the course- of his re-cmarks, re-cmarks, he made the assertion that Peter Skene Ogden was undoubtedly in the vicinity of Ogden and Ogden canyon as early as the year is2l, ' ! which was the same year that j I Lindner is reported to hae dlscov-j i ered the Great Salt Lake. The jour- I I nal which was kpt by Ogden upon I his various trapping expeditions are j some of fli'em extant, but unfortu- nately thnt for the year 1KJJ has not ! 1 yet been located and, therefore, it is Impossible to say whether or not Og- ' den ante-dated Bridget- in the dlscov- ' cry of the lake. It Is, however more ! than likely that Ogden saw the lake j the first year he was here, which I would be about the same time as Hrldger, if not before. Ogden's Jour- i nals for the following year show that he was operating lnvthis vicinity In command of the trappers of the Hud- j son May company, and it Is ns a re- I suit of Ogden's acthity in this region that Ogden's Hole acquired Its name. ! The precise details of the occasion of I Ogden's.-1 name being so much asso- I ciated with this vicinity are not j known, but the first name which we I learn Is that of Ogden's Hole. prob- ! ably given because the trail used by ! the trappers was through what is I now North Ogden canyon, the present Ogden canyon being impassable for 1 horses at that .ime. From Ogden's j Hole both Ogden canyon and Ogden City take their name, though the pre- ! else reason for it is not yet known The journals kept hy Ogden were written by him by the side of the j evening campfire on books made of , beaver skin and are now In the hands j of the present Hudson Ilav company I of London. Those journals which j 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 it Is very difficult to decipher them, and therefore, there-fore, not all of Ogden's wandering can be followed, but there is this 111 -ch certainty about (he matter, that Ogden was one or the first white men to gaze upon the r.rcat Salt Lake and also probably one of tbe first white men who lived in the region m-onmi lory on Hudson bay. He had by this time acquired an interest in the company. "In the full of 1K21 he was at Spo-Kane Spo-Kane house when Governor Simpson and Dr. Mcl.oughlin arrived from across the mountains and was apsign-ed apsign-ed to take charge of the Snake conn-try conn-try rlgnde. which started on the annual an-nual trapping expedition In December of that y ar. They reached the Snake country by the flitter Root valley and Gibson Pass, In the dead of winter. He remained in charge of the Snake brigade for five seasons and the sixth season, that of 1S29P.0, led the bri-gade bri-gade along the eastern side of the S'erras to the Gulf of California. During Dur-ing this period he explored man localities lo-calities not before known to white men, especially central and southern Oregon and Nevada and western Utah and suffered many hardships and dangers. dan-gers. His name has been permanently permanent-ly attached to t ho rher and city In I'tah. and the Humboldt river was called Ogden's rLor for many years, lie named Mount Shasta on one of his expeditions. He had been promoted pro-moted to le chief trader In 1S2I." After listening lo Mr Elliott's address, ad-dress, the guests engii';ed in dancing until the midnight hour, and during the course of the evrning light refreshments re-freshments were served " " ' 111 u"' region around Ogden, and it is. therefore, appropriate appropri-ate that his name should be permanently perma-nently associated with it ' Peter Skene Ogden," said Mr Elliott, El-liott, "was born in the Citv of QUP. bee in the year 17: I. the exact date not yet 'having been 1 raced. IDs Jathcr was then a judge in the Admir-allty Admir-allty Court at Quebec and a lending ,:- I-ovallKl of Canada. Hs mother moth-er was Sarah Hanson Ogden from Livingston Manor near New York City, a sister of Captain John Wilkinson Wilkin-son Hanson of the British ar.niv His grandfather was Judge David Ocden of Newark. N. J., a graduate" from I nle college in the class or 172s j "Judge Isaac Ogden. the rather of Peter Skene, graduated from King's! college, now Columbia university, of' New York City. During the Revolution Revolu-tion the family split. Isaac and two ether brothers becoming Royalists Isaac lost hiH property iy confiscation confisca-tion and fled to New York, and from there to England, in but In 17SS was by King George appointed to the judghln In Canada. Soon after j the birth of Peter Skene he was pro-1 moled to he Puisne judge at Montreal 1 and removed there Or the two brothers broth-ers who espoused the side of the col-1 onles, Abraham became a close adviser ad-viser to 'General Washington, and his1 house at Morrlstown was the head-1 quarters at one time. He was a! prominent attorney and appointed as d'strlcr attorney for New Jersey by President Washington The "Vther Samuel, purchased land in Northern J |