Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 309

LEVI OGLES, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Adams Township,
Morgan County, Ind., June 17, 1843, and is the youngest of the ten
children born to James and Hannah (Salliers) Ogles, the former of whom
was a native of Tennessee, and the latter of the Old Dominion.  They
were of German and English descent respectively.  James Ogles was
educated and first married in his native State, removing from thence to
Washington County, Va., where he lost his wife, and was again married
to the mother of our subject.  In 1829, he came to Adams Township,
Morgan County, Ind., entered eighty acres of land and improved the
farm upon which he resided until his death, which occurred in February,
1865, in his seventy-fifth year.  To his first purchase he added until he
was the owner of some 280 acres.  In politics, he was a Whig, until
1856, after which he was identified with the Repubican party.   Mrs.
Hannah Ogles is yet living, and resides with her son Ira, in Adams Town-
ship, being now in her eighty-fourth year.  Levi Ogles, the subject of our
sketch, received only a limited common school education, and was em-
ployed on the home farm until he attained his majority, when his father
deeded him a farm of eighty acres, near the old homestead, to which
he has added another eighty, and upon which he still resides.  In addi-
tion to farming, Mr. Ogles is also quite extensively engaged in  stock-
raising, and gives special attention to the breeding of Norman horses.
He was married, May 4, 1865, to Miss Margaret E. Summers, a native
of Jefferson Co., Ky.  Five sons have blessed their union, viz.:  George
W., James G., John L., Orlando E. and Orie D.  In politics, Mr. Ogles
is a Democrat.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

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