Excerpt from A Life Well Lived: In Memory of Robert Curtis Ogden Ogden died at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. Mr. Ogden was born in Philadelphia in 1836; in 1858 he moved to New York and all his business life was spent in these two cities. Memorial services were held in New York October 26 and in Brooklyn, Novem ber 9, 1913. On these occasions addresses were delivered by Dr. Francis Brown, president of Union Theological Seminary; Dr. Francis G. Peabody, vice president of the board of trustees of Hampton Institute; dr.s. C. Mitchell, president of the Virginia Medical College Dr. L. Mason Clarke, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Brook lyn; ex-president William H. Taft, of Yale University and Honorable Job E. Hedges, of New York. Three of these addresses, representing different parts of the coun try, are presented in this pamphlet. In the death of Robert C. Ogden, Hampton Institute has experienced one of the greatest losses in its history, A member of its board of trustees since 1874 and president of that body since 1894, he has had much to do with the wonderful growth of this school, founded in 1868 by his friend, General Samuel Chapman Armstrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.