Grocery industry. He was involved in nails which was a big big thing in wheeling. Whealing made and produced a lot of cut nails. Being low kated on the National Road and with the river, which was a major highway and, also with the railroads, cut nails were used to produce and to produce and make all the things out west. So this was an important part of our industry here. At that time, being an industrialist meant that you were an entrepreneur. That you saw the opportunity to make money and knew kind of the connections and the people to work with at that time. And mr. Ogelbee had all of those advantages. When he was a young man, he succeeded his father as a Bank President a a bank in wheeling called the North Western bank of virginia. And he succeeded his dad as president in 1876 he was 28 years old and the youngest Bank President in the united states. And he saw at that time the opportunity that people were getting into iron and steel and coal and iron ore and he kind of realized where the future was. Thats when he decided to get fully involved in opening up and working with iron ore mines. In 1881, when mr. Ogelbee was 31 years old, he was married to sally howellment and her parents were involved in a lot of wheeling Banking Industry that were very social. And she lived down if street from him, which was kind of neat. And he and sally were happily married for many, many years. She passed away before he did from comply case e kagszs of all things of whooping cough. But during the time that they were married, they had one daughter. Her name was serita, spanish for little sa rarks named after her mom. And serita was the love of her life. She was lovely, tall much taller than the average woman of that time period. She was about 511, which was unusual. Because he saw a lot of opportunity with iron ore being the principle, he saw that the iron ore mines were opening up. He relocated the family in cleveland. Thats where his base of operations was. And so they lived on euch lirks id avenue which was called millionaire row. Mr. Oglebee made his fortune in 19d 00 when he was asked to manage j. D. Rockefellers iron ore mines chlts it was the largest range in the world. And mr. Ogleb, ee was involved in managing all of that. In 1900, they sold their interest in this iron ore mind to u. S. Steel. And they walked away multimillionaires. And mr. Ogelbee was 51 years of age. What does he do . He always had an affinity for wheeling. Even when he lived in cleveland he would have an absentee ballot for wheeling. He loved it. He loved the area. He wanted to come back. And his wifes family owned this little summer place up on the top of the hill with 25 acreses of land. He purchased it for 8, 000 from his wifes brothers. They were hairs to the estate. He would buy bits and pieces as he could until he assembled 1500 acres of property. And he called it waddington chlts thavs the name given to this property by the second owner of the mansion in 1856. A man from england called george smith. Mr. Smith felt that the Rolling Hills of the area reminded him of his home his ancestral home in england. And doing some research on the property, felt upon that name really loved that name and called it woddington. The house when it was first built in 1846, was a farmhouse. It had eight rooms four bedrooms, four downstairs rooms central staircase. It was a basic farmhouse a red brick farm house when he originally purchased it. Mr. Oglebee wanted to make it more filling of a summer home of an industrialist. At that time, a lot had beautiful summer else fatings. You think about the beltmore, which is the largest private home in america. This is nothing like that, but i think mr. Ogelbee knew mr. Vander built and wanted to have a summer estate that was kind of more befitting of his status. And so he added the first thing he did was hire a good friend of his who was the most prom innocent architect in wheeling at the time nay decided to adds on to the house. A master bedroom. Three bathrooms. He also installed a larger dining room. The room that were standing in now was added by mr. Oglebeee. This was not really their formal parlor. They had one of those. But more of a room where the family could sit and relax. More of a true sitting room style. Mr. Oglebee was very aware of what was going on around him at all times. And he was aware that as people in this country kind of moved from the farm to the city,as our economy shifted to a more industrial economy and more people found manufacturing jobs in the city that folk needed save food. At that time period, you know, there werent a lot of regulations in processing food. Milk could kill you because it wasnt always pasteurized and homogenized. He thought that having 2 economy was an important thick for food distribution. He was very involved in all of that. He had a great vision for developing a farm that had the best agricultural practices that he could possibly have. And he had the resources, the Financial Resources to do this. So woddington farm became a model farm for this sort of thing. He hired experts from the yumpbt of wisconsin, from cornell. He had a cattle man come in from london. He had the best of the best and he had a wonderful model farm here for 26 years. He was a very dedicated, serious man when imkate to indust ri. He loved his family. S oh reta was married and had a son that he doted on. We have a beautiful Goldfish Pond on the property. Its quite large. And mr. Ogelbee gave the order that you werent allowed to kind of mess with the goldfish. They were big coy or anything like that. But the boys would fish. And i do remember a story we had a man who worked here for many, many years. And he was courtney burtons boyhood best friend mplt and he said one day, he and courtney were fishing in the pond. They werent supposed to and they heard a lot of lafter behind them and there was mr. Oglebee stabding there. He didnt say anything. He let them fish. He also gave the boys a gold coin whenever he possibly could. For something. For shopping, whatever they wanted to do. He was very generous in that way. But think he was also a very serious man. Very serious minded. He was on this mission to kind of, you know, be a great humanitarian. Mr. Oglebee died in 1926. And i think because he was a wealthy man, a very famous man in this area people didnt know him on a personal basis very well. He was very formal when he was out. I think that people are very grateful that he left his land to the city of wheeling to become a park. I think it was an amazing gift. Very generous. And its nice that the naply didnt quibble with any of this. They thought this was a great gift. When this happened when mr. Oglebee passed away in 1926 at the age of 77, his wife, of course, had already predeceased him. They had the daughter, sereta and her husband and they supported it so much that they paid the taxes here until the city accept it as a gift. It took two years for the city to accept this gift. People were reluctant because of this big responsibility. But, finally, did accept the gift in 19d 28. And then, of course, it was named ogleb, ee in his honor. I think its a remarkable city park. People are surprised when they find out that it is a city park. And its one of the biggest in the country. Grant and sur rerndrendered his army. Explore the aftermath and legacy of appomattox. Well open our phone lines. The surrender at appomattox live on cspan3. This sunday Andrew Ferguson on his writing and what voters are looking for in a candidate. 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