Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 500-502 [Caldwell] RICHARD W. OGILVIE, M. D. There is no profession which demands more careful preparation or more absolute devotion to the duties involved in its practice than does the medical profession, if success is to be attained therein, and when one has gained prominence as a medical practitioner it is proof of his capability and skill and of his allegiance to the ethics which govern the fraternity. Dr. Richard Woods Ogilvie, in his practice at Princeton, has gained many patrons from among the best class of citizens and enjoys the high regard of the community not alone because of his broad learning, but also because of his sterling worth of character. A native of Garrard county, Kentucky, he was born on the 5th of March, 1876, and is a son of Richard Akin and Martha Ann (Woods) Ogilvie. His paternal grandfather, Richard Harris Ogilvie, is a native of Tennessee, where he has spent his entire life, his home being in the city of Columbia. Throughout his active business career he followed farming, and now he is living retired at the very advanced age of ninety-six years. His father was Richard Henry Ogilvie, who resided in Williamson county, Tennessee, but who was a native of Scotland, whence he emigrated to the new world. He also carried on agricultural pursuits as a life work. After reaching years of maturity the grandfather wedded Miss Sue Akin, a native of Maury county, Tennessee, and together they are enjoying a happy old age, having long traveled life's journey together. She is now seventy-eight years of age. The maternal grandfather of Dr. Ogilvie was Rice Garland Woods, who was born in Garrand county, Kentucky, and was of Irish lineage. He devoted his attention to farming throughout his business life, and died in the year 1893, at the age of eighty-four. His widow, who bore the maiden name of Margaret Denny, was born in Garrard county, where she is still living at the age of eighty-six years. Richard Akin Ogilvie, the doctor's father, was born in Columbia, Tennessee, and there he spent his entire life, becoming one of the prominent and influential business men of that city. He was engaged in banking, and was a prominent factor in the financial circles of that city. A very prominent and honored member of the Masonic fraternity, he attained the Knight Templar degree of the York Rite and the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He also belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, and gave his political support to the Democracy. A loyal and active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, he served as one of its stewards and labored earnestly for its welfare and upbuilding [sic]. His wife was a member of the Presbyterian church. His death occurred in 1886, when he was forty years of age, and Mrs. Ogilvie, who was born in Garrard county, Kentucky, died in 1883, at the early age of thirty-six years. The doctor is their only son, but he has one sister, Sue, who is the wife of Horace K. Herndon, of Lancaster, Kentucky. Dr. Ogilvie spent the first seventeen years of his life in his father's home in Columbia, Tennessee, and then went to live in Garrard county, Kentucky, where he remained for two years. He next became a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, remaining in that city for five years. His literary education was acquired in the Webb Brothers' school in Bellbuckle, Tennessee, and determining to make the practice of medicine his life work, he began preparation for this calling at the Hospital College of Medicine in Louisville, where he graduated with the class of 1900. After six months' hospital service in the Gray Street Infirmary, during which time his theoretical knowledge was supplemented by varied practical experience, he left Louisville and came to Princeton, where he has made his home continuously since the fall of 1900, and in the conduct of the business accorded him he has shown a comprehensive knowledge of the science of medicine and its practical workings for the alleviation of human suffering. In 1901 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Ogilvie and Miss Jimmie Harris Lester, of Princeton, and they now have one child, Frances lone [sic}. Fraternally Dr. Ogilvie is quite prominent, belonging to the Knights of Pythias lodge, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also identified with various organizations having for their object the dissemination of knowledge bearing upon the work of the medical fraternity, being a member of the Caldwell County Medical Society, the Southwestern Kentucky Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Association and the Americal [sic] Medical Association. He is deeply interested in his chosen life work, and zealously pursues the knowledge thereof that his labors may be more effective in coping with the intricate problems which continually confront the physician. Already he has attained enviable success, and now has a good patronage in Princeton. Ogilvie Woods Akin Denny Herndon Lester = Garrard-KY Williamson-TN Scotland Maury-TN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/caldwell/ogilvie.rw.txt