Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Dr. Geo. C. Ogle (b. 1817 - d. 1899)
MSA SC 5496-015911
Property owner, Prince George's County, Maryland

Biography:

    George Cooke Ogle was born in 1817 at the Belair estate, in Prince George's County, Maryland to Benjamin Ogle, Jr. and Anna Maria Cooke. He received his M.D. from the Maryland School of Medicine in 1838. On October 12, 1853, Ogle married his maternal first cousin Anna Maria Cooke, daughter of George and Ellen Dall Cooke, at Hazelwood in Anne Arundel County. George and Anna Cooke Ogle had two sons Benjamin (b.1854) and George Cooke Ogle, Jr (b.1857). Ogle's widowed mother Anne Maria Cooke Ogle died December 30, 1856 and he inherited Belair through her will. 

    George Ogle like his family owned slaves. When Ogle's father Benjamin, Jr. died he willed to his sons George and Richard his land and his slaves after the death of his wife. Dr. Ogle was cited in a runaway ad, when the wife of his slave Peter, ran away from the home of William E. Peach. At the end of the Civil War he freed the following slaves: Anne Hawkins, Anne Jones, Cecelia Matthews, Cerina Matthews, Charlotte Matthews, Child of Linda Jones, Edward Holland, Edward Sprigg, Eliza Hawkins, Elizabeth Jones, Ellen Jones, Emily Sprigg, Fanny Matthews, Frederick Matthews, Frederick Matthews, Jr., Harriet Matthews, Henny Hawkins, Henny Matthews, Henrietta Matthews, Henry Brown, Henry Contee, Isaac Hawkins, Isaac Holland, Isaac Snowden, Isabel Snowden, Jerry Holland, Jim Sprigg, Lawrence Jackson, Linda Jones, Louisa Matthews, Maria Jones, Maria Matthews, Mary Jones, Noble Snowden, Peter Jones, Randolph Jackson, Samuel Jones, Sophia Hawkins, Thaddeus Sprigg, Thomas Matthews, William Henry Lee, William Jones, and William Sprigg.

    Ogle was heavily in debt by the end of the Civil War and was forced to sell the property in 1871. George Ogle and his wife moved to Baltimore, MD where he held his medical practice. The family resided at 711 N. Carey in Baltimore City. In 1878 Ogle's sister Rosalie Ogle sued her brother because he was insolvent in giving her $3000 that was willed to her from her father.  Dr. George Ogle died November 27, 1899 in Baltimore, MD.


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