Mathew Ogden and Elizabeth Bloom

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Husband Mathew Ogden ¹

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            AKA: [Unk] Ogden 2
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       Marriage:  - Clearfield Co, PA

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Wife Elizabeth Bloom ¹

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            AKA: [Unk] Bloom
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           Died:  - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA
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         Father: William Bloom (1752-      ) 3 4 5
         Mother: Mary Metler (1754-      ) 6

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Mathew Ogden

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He had many encounters with the Indians and was known as a successful Indian fighter and several interesting stories of his courage and diplomacy are told. On one occasion, being hard pressed in a running fight with the natives, he jumped into a ditch and as an Indian attempted to also clear the ditch, the opportunity was afforded Mr. Ogden of killing his pursuer and thereby saving his own life. On another memorable occasion in order to escape capture, he crawled into a hollow log and, strange as it may seem, an industrious spider covered his hiding place with a web and when the Indians caught up with him, he had the satisfaction of overhearing their comments on his escape while they were sitting on the very log in which he was entombed. On still another occasion he was at work near his home when two Indians approached him apparently in a friendly way but very soon they informed him that they had come to slay him. He had no weapon near but had the presence of mind to invite them into his cabin for refreshment and, there, with the quick movement that had often before saved his life, caught up his gun and killed them both.

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Notes: Marriage

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This was the first marriage ceremony recorded in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and it was performed by Samuel Bell, Esq., who was the first justice of the peace in the neighborhood.

1 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 604.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 623.

3 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 631.

4 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 548, 602.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 623, 631, 727, 753, 889.

6 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 418.