Ogee Or Ogyve is a term used in architecture, both ecclesiastic and secular, to designate a molding formed by the combination of a round and hollow, part being concave and part convex. Ogees are extensively used in the classical style of architecture, also in the Gothic, but they are, quite as often as not, used … Continue reading “Ogee Or Ogyve”
Ogdensburg, New York, diocese of
Ogdensburg, New York, diocese of Comprises Lewis, Jefferson, Saint Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton, and Essex Counties plus parts of Herkimer and Hamilton Counties. Founded on 15 February 1872. Suffragan of the archdiocese of New York. Catholic-Hierarchy.Org diocese of Ogdensburg patron saints index New Catholic Dictionary Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Ogdensburg, Diocese of
Ogdensburg, Diocese of (Ogdensburgdensis). Comprises the northern towns of Herkimer and Hamilton counties, with the counties of Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton, and Essex in New York. On the north and east it is bounded by Canada and Vermont and by Lake Ontario on the west. It covers 12,036 square miles, to a great … Continue reading “Ogdensburg, Diocese of”
Ogden, Uzal, D.D.
Ogden, Uzal, D.D. an American divine, was born at Newark (one authority has it Newton, Sussex Co.), N. J., about 1744. He studied to become a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and, having gone to England, received both deacon’s and priest’s orders from the bishop of London, Sept. 21, 1773. Having returned to this … Continue reading “Ogden, Uzal, D.D.”
Ogden, Thomas Spencer
Ogden, Thomas Spencer a Presbyterian minister and missionary, was the son of the Rev. Benjamin Ogden, and was born in Pennington, N. J., in 1832. He graduated at the University of Michigan in 1853; then passed through the theological course of Princeton. On Aug. 18,1857, he was ordained in New Brunswick, N. J. as a … Continue reading “Ogden, Thomas Spencer”
Ogden, Samuel
Ogden, Samuel D.D., an English divine of note, was born at Manchester in 1716, and was educated at the free school there. In 1733 he was admitted to King’s College, Cambridge; and removed to St. John’s in 1736, where in the following year he took the degree of B.A., and in 1739 was elected fellow. … Continue reading “Ogden, Samuel”
Ogden, Joseph Meeker, D.D
Ogden, Joseph Meeker, D.D a Presbyterian minister, was. born at Elizabethtown, N.J., September 21, 1804. He graduated from Princeton College in 1823, and from the Theological Seminary there in 1826; spent two years in evangelistic work in Pennsylvania; was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Chatham in 1828, of which he became pastor emeritus in … Continue reading “Ogden, Joseph Meeker, D.D”
Ogden, John W
Ogden, John W a Presbyterian minister, was born near Bardstown, Ky., Dec. 24, 1793. His education was obtained under the immediate superintendence of his father. During the war of 1812 with Great Britain he was in the army under General Jackson. On leaving the army he was licensed to preach, and he was ordained in … Continue reading “Ogden, John W”
Ogden, Benjamin
Ogden, Benjamin a pioneer preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in New Jersey in 1764. In youth he served in the Revolutionary war, and had great influence over his fellow-soldiers. He afterwards moved to Kentucky, then a hunting-ground for Indian tribes, to engage in missionary labors, and for many years thereafter he penetrated … Continue reading “Ogden, Benjamin”
Og
OG An Amoritish king of Bashan east of the Jordan, defeated and slain by the Israelites under Moses. He was a giant in stature, on e of the last of the Rephaim who had possessed that region; and his iron bedstead, fourteen feet long, was preserved after his death as a relic. Ashtaroth-carnaim and Edrei … Continue reading “Og”