Zenas Ogden, son of Daniel Ogden and Phoebe, daughter of Moses Lindsley and Irany Raynor, was born at Morristown, New Jersey. February 3. 1790 : married Julia, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Marsh (born 1794: died June 16, 1828); married again, in 1833, Melita Baird (born at Becket, Massachusetts, November 2, 1806; died at Elkhorn, December 10, 1880. In 1833; came in the forties to his farm in the southwestern quartet of Elkhorn; died December 12, 1861. He was a cousin of President William B. Ogden, of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company. In his middle life he was a Whig, in later years a Republican. His eight children (three by second marriage) were Harriet Thankful (Mrs. Elijah Smith), Albert, Mary (Mrs. Gabriel Smith Sawyer), Stansbury (married Ruth A. Mallory). Lucy (Mrs. A. Sidney Downs), George Washington (married Mary M. Jewell), Henry (died young), Elizabeth (Mrs. W. Frank Jewell ).
From: Beckwith, A.C. (1912). History of Walworth County Wisconsin