James Washington Ogan

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James was 6 ft 7 in tall. A special bed was built for him. 1880 census Carpinteria, Santa Barbara Co., CA. Wife, 1 son. 1900 census Carpinteria, Santa Barbara Co., CA Lived for a time in Ethanac, Riverside Co. (1912). The family was very musical and played for many local dances.

James married Ada Ann Spooner on 27 Jan 1878 in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, CA. Ada was born on 26 Feb 1851 in Cambridge (Oakland Ctr.), Jefferson County, Wi; died on 14 Feb 1931 in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, CA; was buried in Carpinteria Cem., Carpinteria, CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Played banjo and guitar.

Family/Spouse: Edna Mae Hansen. Edna was born on 9 Sep 1880 in Minnesota; died on 16 Jan 1954 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Frances Fern-Fisk Moss Ashmore. Mary was born on 6 May 1913 in Oklahoma; died on 21 Oct 1970. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth took organ lessons from Aunt Millie and others and played for local churches. She became a music teacher and taught as many as 22 music students at one time, charged 50 cents per hour, and traveled by horse and buggy from Rincon to Summerland to give lessons.

Elizabeth married Harbron Williams Morris on 17 Sep 1908 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, CA. Harbron was born on 10 Feb 1885 in Litchfield, Meeker County, MN; died in 1949 in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, CA; was buried in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died age 14 of a hunting accident carrying a loaded (shotgun) while crossing a fence. Newspaper article said he was reading the newspaper with part of his head blown off.

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1900 living with Charles S. Ogan in Ojai Twp., Ventura Co., CA Died of smallpox. Played the mandolin.

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See Biography in Carpinteria Herald, republished by Carpinteria Valley Historical Society. Rolland Ogan was born and died in the same house. He played the mandolin. In 1913 he settled a homestead in Ventucopa in the Cuyama Valley, California. He lived at Ventucopa until moving in 1919 to Moorpark, CA, to open a blacksmith shop with Billie Treloar, Myrtle's brother. Later they moved the blacksmith shop to Montecito. Rolland returned to Carpinteria in 1924 where he raised lima beans, lemons, and oranges on his property. He also started an electric business which he later sold, becoming a carpenter until his retirement in 1956. In his later years his Parkinson's disease prevented him form driving so he would walk 5 blocks to Pete's Pool Hall on Carpinteria Avenue.

Rolland married Myrtle Ella Treloar on 31 Dec 1908 in Grace Meth. Episcopal, Santa Barbara, CA. Myrtle was born on 20 Mar 1889 in Celestial Valley, Yuba County, CA; died on 4 Aug 1967 in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, CA; was buried on 11 Aug 1967 in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1900 census Ojai Twp., Ventura Co., CA. with boarder, Jos. Waites, and brother Perry Ogan. He was diagnosed with cancer and committed suicide with a .32 caliber pistol. He played the guitar.

Charles married Maude Anna Tregoning on 10 Jul 1929 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA. Maude was born on 25 Jan 1881 in San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA; died on 1 May 1953 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, CA; was buried on 4 May 1953 in Carpinteria Cem., Carpinteria, CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Frances Cora Autchins. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marion married Curtis Gerald Linkey [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marion married George Andrew Mangis [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married Edgar William Morris, Jr [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Reginald married Donna May Buker [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Fourth marriage, first three were very short.

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Chet Ogan is a Biological Technician in wildlife research at Redwood Sciences Laboratory in Arcata. Specific duties include maintaining the fisher and marten database for the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region and has coauthored a couple of papers with Dr. William Zielinski on fisher and marten distribution in California. Graduating in 1965 from high school in Taft, CA, Chet received his A.A. Degree from Santa Barbara City College in 1967 and graduated from Humboldt State University in December 1969 with a BA degree in Biology -botany option and many courses in geology. Chet has worked for the Forest Service since 1970, where he began in trail maintenance on Los Padres National Forest . He worked 4 years in fire control as a hotshot crewman and foreman, fire truck crewman, and engine driver on the Angeles National Forest. In 1974 Chet transferred to Pacific Southwest Research Station at San Dimas where he worked as a Hydrologic Technician, maintaining a system of rain gauges and stream wiers on the Hillslope and Erosion Project until 1977. He also worked on the Prescribed Burning Project which developed protocols for prescribed burning operations . After a 4 year stint with the US Army from 1977 to 1981 Chet transferred to Redwood Sciences Lab in Arcata as a forestry technician with the Silviculture Project. In 1982 Chet was reassigned to the Wildlife Research Project. Chet's experience here has included bird banding, small mammal and carnivore trapping, track plate work; bird censuses and forest passerine bird activity budgets; forest amphibian pitfall trapping, stream searches, and time-constraint and area searches. In 1987 Chet began work with the spotted owl project, primarily dissecting owl pellets, but also spent a year with telemetry of both owls and their primary prey item, woodrats. Chet's analysis of spotted owl pellets from northern California and southern Oregon forests and has contributed to several publications on prey use by spotted owls as it relates to home range size. Chet's volunteer activities include running a USFWS Breeding Bird Survey route since 1988. From 1998 -2000 Chet was on the Board of Directors for California North Coast Chapter of The Wildlife Society, and served on the Redwood Region Audubon Society Board of Directors for 10 years from 1984 to 1994, serving as Program chairperson and Publicity chairperson, and as chapter President from 2000-2002, and is active in the Conservation Committee. Chet served on the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary and Streams Committee from 1985 to 1993. From 1993 to 1995 Chet served on the Washington Elementary School Site Council in Eureka where his two children, born in 1982 and 1984, attended elementary school. Chet is an Eagle Scout and has been active with Boy Scouts locally since 1992. Chet served 4 years active duty with the U.S. Army as a Biological Sciences Assistant at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C. where he worked as an electron microscope technician working with tropical blood parasites and is a platoon sergeant with the 579th Engineer Battalion in Eureka. Chet's 20 years with the National Guard and Army has allowed him to travel to Bangladesh, Honduras, Panama, and Germany. He has been activated for local forest fire, flood, earthquake disaster relief. Chet's hobbies include photography, skiing, scuba diving, rock climbing, and backpacking, where he can always be seen with his binoculars, spotting scope, and bird identification guide, looking for rare birds. Evenings not spent in meetings will find Chet on Internet researching his family genealogy which he has traced back to the Middle Ages.

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