Joseph Ogle
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Isaac Joseph Ogle (1737 - 1821) was an American soldier and frontiersman. He was born in Maryland on June 17, 1737. Ogle married first Prudence Drusilla Biggs (1748-1777), of Frederick County, Maryland, who bore him five children. In 1777, the family was living on Buffalo Creek in what is today Brooke County, West Virginia. Capt. Joseph Ogle commanded a Virginia company during the Revolutionary War. He was involved in the Siege of Fort Henry in what is now West Virginia.He married a second wife, Jemima Meiggs or Meeks, with whom he had four children. All of the children were born in what was then Virginia.
Ogle left Virginia in opposition to slavery. He relocated to Illinois, in the Northwest Territory, in 1785, where slavery was illegal. Ogle first settled on the road from Bellefontaine to Cahokia, Illinois. In 1796, he moved to New Design, in what is now Monroe County.In 1791, Ogle was involved in a skirmish with Native Americans near what is now Waterloo, Illinois. Ogle died on February 24, 1821. He is buried in St. Clair County, Illinois. Ogle had a son who was also named Joseph Ogle. His son was involved in the Black Hawk War, and died in 1846.
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