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OGG, CHARLES SIMMERS (1832-1905)

OGG, CHARLES SIMMERS, Presbyterian minister, St Andrew's Church, Chatham, 1861-68; b. Banchory-Ternan parish, Kincardineshire, Scotland, 10 Apr 1832, s/o the Rev. Charles Ogg and Christian Simmers; unmarried; d. New Zealand, 21 Aug 1905.

Charles S. Ogg, who was educated at King's College, Aberdeen (MA 1851), came to New Brunswick early in 1861 and was inducted in February of that year as pastor of St Andrew's Church, Chatham. The 1860s were prosperous years on the Miramichi, and during his term a new church was erected, in which he preached the opening sermon on 15 January 1865. While ministering at Chatham he also preached one or more guest sermons at the Presbyterian church in Newcastle and addressed the Mechanics' Institute on such topics as "The Father of Rivers" (1867) and "The Catacombs of Rome" (1868).

In the words of a member of his congregation, Ogg was "a little short man, and stern." When he resigned and left in the fall of 1868 he may have returned to Scotland, but he soon made his way to New Zealand, where he was inducted as minister of St Andrew's Church, Wellington, in 1872. He retired in 1903, at age seventy-one, and died two years later.

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[b/d] FES [bap] LDS-IGI / Advocate 23 Jan 1868, 4 Jun 1868; Betts (FF); Gleaner 21 Jan 1865, 23 Mar 1867; World 22 Aug 1917


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