I was born 30 June 1895 at Kaysville, Davis Co., Utah. I was the fourth child and only son of Edward Garratt Ogden and Louisa Charlotta E. Johnson Ogden.

My father and mother lived in town and cultivated some acreage a short distance away. Then my father's health impaired following an accident when he was thrown from a horse.

While I was a young child, my family moved to Lindon, where we acquired a home and small farm, and I grew up among relatives and friends with an easy access to church and schools.

In my younger years, I worked with my father on the farm and at selling our produce in nearby towns. I attended schools at Lindon and Pleasant Grove. I completed the eighth grade at the age of 14 years.

The next three years, I worked at farming and attended the Brigham Young University during the winter months, doing odd jobs and janitor work for my tuition, books and living expenses.

My father's health was on the decline and I began to feel that the family was my responsibility.

In the fall of 1913, I found employment in the mining town of Eureka. I shared a miner's cabin with two other bachelors. My expense was for necessities only so that I could send the money I earned to my family.

The farm on Provo Bench was rented out on shares and the family moved to Provo in order for my sisters to attend the Provo High School and the Brigham Young University.

I worked every day and was happy. People were congenial and Eureka was home to me. Occasionally, I would visit my family in Provo for a day. On one such occasion, in the summer of 1916, I met a friend of my sister June, Rose Mary Johnson. I was very surprised when the thought came to me that I might sometime marry this young lady. The letters from June had told me of her girl friends and particularly about Rose and I believe she had also done some bragging about her big brother.

February 1917 our country was at War with Germany. I wanted to volunteer for service but was given a deferred classification as I was the major support of my family. My father worried about my working in the mines, so I obtained work in the Union Pacific Railway shops in Provo. There under government control, I was frozen to that job for the duration. We worked every day for 12 hours or more. This did not give me much time for Church social activities or romancing. However, I did get acquainted again with my people, and enjoyed the occasional companionship of Rose, who had been teaching in Sevier County, but had returned to Provo as the schools were closed because of the influenza epidemic.

Rose did nursing in the homes of stricken families as did my sisters and my mother. Rose and I were good friends but there was no talk of marriage as we both felt we had obligations to our families as well as personal ambitions to realize and satisfy.

It had long been the desire of my father to work in the temple, so the farm on Provo Bench was sold and the family moved to Salt Lake City. Besides my sisters were more likely to find employment there.

Mother rented a large house across the street north from the temple grounds. My help was still needed, but I could not adjust to city employment and city living so I worked on construction jobs in Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming, developing mines, installing machinery in sugar mills and in oil refineries.

In the spring of 1921 we purchased a home on the corner of Eleventh East and Second South. My sisters were working. Father was continuing his work in the temple as his health would permit. We were in a depression and money and jobs were hard to come by. uncle John Johnson gave me a job working with him in the wholesale poultry and egg business, for several months, for which I was very grateful as it gave me an insight into the business of buying and selling.

Rose had been teaching in Beaver, Utah and we had corresponded regularly. I had visited her several times. Then she arranged to teach at Draper for the school year 1921-1922. This gave us the opportunity to see each other more often. We became engaged and were married 2 June 1922 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.

The ensuing years passed rapidly and my occupations were numerous and varied. Wages were not high enough to cover any more than the necessities of life but I did keep busy and enjoyed my family.

We arranged to purchase a farm in Lehi in 1925 and we enjoyed country living but it proved to be too much of a luxury and required my working at other jobs to support it. The Depression lasted for several years. Property values dropped, employment was at a low point. Foreclosures on homes, failure of banks and businesses were very common.

We had plenty of food and at no time were we in desperate need, but in 1930 toward the end of summer our crops were affected by blight and insects and a fungus growth stopped the development of the sugar beets. I realized how hopeless the situation was, I dropped my hoe in the field and made plans to return to Salt Lake City.

We purchased a home at 1404 South on 4th East, near Liberty Park and close to Church and schools. My parents came to live with us. Father passed in May of 1931. Mother was kept busy with her maternity cases and new babies were arriving in her own families.

Our great sorrow came when Mary Louisa died on 27 Jan. 1930. We also lost twin girls in infancy and another baby girl, who died of unknown causes.

I had a strong urge to move to California, as each winter I would have recurrent attacks of rheumatic fever and spend several weeks in bed.

In the fall of 1935 I arrived in Oakland and with the help of my sisters Louise and Etta and their husbands, I found employment and was soon sending money home to pay bills and support my family. My mother did not want to move to California, so she and Dad lived in our home and rented part of it.

My family arrived in Oakland in February 1936. It was a happy reunion to be together amid flowering trees and mild sunshine instead of snow and the cold of Utah winters.

I worked as a mechanic in electric appliance assembly plants and at the Key System Transportation Shops and also the Bethlem Shipyards at San Francisco and later at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. I advanced to a supervisory capacity and received some citations and cash awards for suggestions, ideas and inventions which proved useful in the construction of ships and sub marines. I enjoyed my work very much but the extreme noise of the shops and the responsibility of my job was upsetting a nervous condition which was the result of a fall down a mine shaft in 1926. I had learned to live with this condition but did require the services of a Chiropractor quite often. He had become a Chiropractor because of the help he had received in the correction of a disability. This good doctor inspired me to take up the profession.

Our three sons were industrious and with newspaper routes and summer employment were meeting their own personal needs.

After evaluation of my school credits and experience record, I registered in the Chiropractic College in Oakland and attended classes from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. I continued my work at Mare Island for some time. Later I secured part time employment and the last year spent full time in school, completing over 3,000 hours of class, laboratory and clinical instruction. I passed the State Examination and received my license to practice in August 1945.

I was determined to do my best to help everyone who came to my office. I developed a diversified practice which required the working of long hours, the employing of help, and the referring of patients to medical doctors for surgery and other specialized work. I did build and maintain a good relationship with local hospitals and the better physicians and surgeons in our area.

Fifteen years passed quickly and I retired from office practice in 1960, hoping to do some of the many things I had put in the back ground for so long.

I enjoyed doing things for my children to improve their homes. The companionship in our family has been very rewarding. All our sons were in the Service during World War II. Rulon and Dene filled missions to South America Edward completed a Stake Mission in Oakland.

My wife, Rose, taught school in the Bay Area for several years during and following World War II.

My mother remained active and for many years made regular trips to California to visit her loved ones living in that area. During her last visit, she suffered a heart attack and was confined to bed for three months. I was grateful I could help her. She recovered enough to make the flight back to the home of her daughter Sadie. She died 4 Nov. 1959 near the end of her eighty ninth year.

I find satisfaction in being able to help my parents accomplish their purpose in life, in giving help both to the living and the dead. It is my desire that I will still find joy in being of service to my family and my

Rose Mary, whom I love very much and I enjoy our 4 children and their mates and our 23 grandchildren.