Ogden, Murdock, and Cox families papers, 1794-1990 | Louisiana Research Collection

Scope and Contents: The collection consists of personal and business correspondence of the Ogden, Murdock and Cox families. The majority of the letters are from the Ogden family, most of which were addressed to Eliza Ogden (1843-1913) and Grace Augusta Cox Ogden (1874-1959). There are the Civil War letters of William Frederick Ogden (1842-1899), Captain of the 7th Louisiana Volunteers, Confederate States of America; the Reconstruction letters of Abner Nash Ogden, former Justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court; and the letters of Dunbar H. Ogden as a student at Chamberlain Hunt Academy and as a Presbyterian minister. There are love letters of Gideon Warren Cox (1835-1900) to Elizabeth Augusta Murdock Sykes (1841-1921) as well as some Cox business papers. Finally, there are letters from James Murdock (1776-1856), a professor at Andover Theological Seminary and pastor in Princeton, Massachusetts.