The old merchants of New York City / by Walter Barrett.

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Cile first to open a store in Broad street, which previous
to that (about 1829) was filled with private residences.
John A. was the perfect model of a Holland merchant.
I think the race is quite extinct in the city now.
About a year after the death of his partner, Mr.
Ogden, on the 13th of March, 1804, was married at
the Walton House, in Franklin square, by Bishop
Moore, to Miss Charlotte E. Walton, the daughter
of the Walton of that day. A year previous in June,
1803, the friend of Mr. Ogden, Edmund Morewood,
married Miss Jane Glover, a daughter of John G.
Glover. She died about one year after her marriage,
leaving one daughter, Helen, who afterwards married
John Ferguson. In November, 1805, Mr. Morewood
became the brother-in-law of Mr. Ogden, by marrying
a Miss Walton, sister to Mrs. Ogden. Edward Lyde
married another of the sisters Walton. Jonathan
Ogden was an Englishman by birth, and one of the
first members of the St. George's Society in this city.
He joined it in 1791. He afterwards became the
seventh president of the society. He was small in size,
thick-set, and was one of those pleasant, jolly-countenanced, English gentlemen, of great moral worth and integrity. In 1811 lie moved his residence to No. 4
State street, fronting the Battery. IIe had purchased
the property before he built upon it. He lived in
'andsome style, had an elegant equipage, &c.
After he moved to No. 4 State street, he continued
business under his own name until 1820, when he
formed a partnership with John Day, under the firm of
Ogden, Day & Co., at No. 3 Coenties slip. John Day
had been in business as early as 1812, at the same place,
under the firm of Day, Downs & Eastburn.
Jonathan Ogden did an immense business for many