Col. Samuel Ogden was a businessman, developer and land speculator who fought on the side of the patriots during the American Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...

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Biography

Ogden served as a Colonel of the New Jersey Militia during the Revolutionary War, and was later prominent in the iron business, founding the Boonton Iron Works

Boonton Iron Works

The Boonton Iron Works were founded about 1770 by Samuel Ogden who, with others in his family, purchased a tract along the Rockaway River, near Boonton, New Jersey, United States. Here rolling and slitting mills were erected that engaged in the manufacture of nail rods and bar iron. With the...

 about 1770 on six acres of land located along the Rockaway River, near Boonton, New Jersey

Boonton, New Jersey

Boonton is a town in Morris County, New Jersey that was chartered in 1867. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 8,347. The town was originally called "Boone-Towne" in 1761 in honor of the Colonial Governor Thomas Boone....

. In 1775, he married Euphemia Morris (1754-1818), a sister of Gouverneur Morris

Gouverneur Morris

Gouverneur Morris , was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York City who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation. Morris was also an author of large sections of the...

. After his brother Abraham Ogden

Abraham Ogden

Abraham Ogden was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1791 to 1798 and negotiated the Treaty of New York in 1796.-Biography:...

 served as Commissioner to the Indians in Northern New York, Samuel and Abraham, along with Gouverneur Morris and others, purchased a large tract of land in New York south of the Saint Lawrence River

Saint Lawrence River

The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin...

, seeking to develop and then sell off the land to settlers. One of the principal settlements in this tract, the City of Ogdensburg, New York

Ogdensburg, New York

Ogdensburg is a city in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 11,128 at the 2010 census. In the late 18th century, European-American settlers named the community after American land owner and developer Samuel Ogden....

, was named after Samuel Ogden.