Aaron Ogden was an American soldier, lawyer, United States Senator and the fifth governor of New Jersey. Ogden is perhaps best known today as the complainant in Gibbons v. Ogden which destroyed the monopoly power of steamboats on the Hudson River... Wikipedia
Born: December 3, 1756, Elizabeth, NJ
Died: April 19, 1839 (age 82 years), Jersey City, NJ
Children: Elias B. D. Ogden, Matthias Ogden, Aaron Ogden Jr., and more
Grandchild: Frederick B. Ogden
Grandparents: Hannah Crane and Robert Ogden
Great-grandparents: Jonathan Ogden, Jasper Crane, Joanna Swaine, and more