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New Canaan There & Then: David Ogden
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‘New Canaan There & Then’ is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Bettina Hegel, Joanne Santulli, Dawn Sterner and Pam Stutz. Seven-and-a-half hours: the 2025 travel time from Liverpool, UK to New York City (with a layover). Seven weeks (plus trial and error of an additional two weeks): the 1844 transit time, along the same route, for New Canaan resident David Ogden. His harrowing journey was chronicled by historian David Finnie in the 1967 Annual published by the New Canaan Historical Society.
From 1837 to 1844 David Ogden, (1811-1845), born in Fairfield, Connecticut, served as the Rector of St. Mark’s in New Canaan, a time in which he endured personal tragedies including the deaths of his wife and infant son.