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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [245]

           R. C. OGILVIE, M.D., one of the prominent business men of Huron
        County, is a resident at Port Hope, in Rubicon Township. He is the
        oldest medical practitioner at Port Hope, and in his professional
        relations with the inhabitants of Huron County has a wide and
        substantial popularity. He is engaged in a general mercantile
        business, which includes the sale of drugs, and is the only dealer
        in that variety of merchandise from Sand Beach to Port Austin. His
        business operations embrace an extensive manufacture of salt, in
        which traffic he has about $15,000 invested. He is also engaged in
        lumbering and has a saw-mill. He owns about 800 acres of land, with
        100 acres in good agricultural condition.
           DR. OGILVIE was born at Campbellford, Northumberland Co., Ont.,
        Canada, Oct. 1, 1849.  He is the son of WILLIAM and MARTHA (HEANSY)
        OGILVIE, both of whom are deceased. They were each about 55 years
        of age at the time of their demise, and in their deaths were
        divided but ten days. The father was an energetic, enterprising
        business man, and reared his son in the methods which controlled
        his own active career.
           The latter received his elementary education at the public
        schools of the Dominion, and afterwards pursued a more extended
        course of study, first at the University of Victoria College and
        afterwards at Upper Canada College.
           He matriculated in 1866, in the Medical Department of the Uni-
        versity of Toronto, and after four years' attendance on lectures
        graduated with honors in 1870.  He came to Port Hope in the fall of
        the same year, and at once established himself as a medical practi-
        tioner and heads his profession, being the oldest physician by
        priority of location at Port Hope.
           In 1880 he became interested in the other branches of business
        which he is prosecuting. He built a dock for the convenience and
        furtherance of his business plans, which was destroyed in the fire
        of 1881, together with a large quantity of logs, lumber and wood,
        representing a loss in the aggregate of $8,000. He was seriously
        affected by the loss and the interruption of his business plans,
        but as his latent "grit" equalized his lack of means, he pushed the
        work of reconstruction and soon replaced the dock and completed the
        erection of his salt-block.
           DR. OGILVIE has made a success of all his business enterprises,
        and from the small beginning of $200, which was his entire capital
        on coming to Port Huron, he has acquired the substantial reward of
        well directed, persistent effort.
           In political views DR. OGILVIE is a Republican, and exhibits
        the same energy in the advocacy of those principles as he does in
        his business and professional pursuits, and has been Supervisor of
        Rubicon Township during the last three years, during two of which
        he officiated as Chairman of the Board. He is a Presbyterian in
        religious sentiment and connection.
           On the preceding page is presented a lithographic portrait
        of DR. OGILVIE, which doubtless will be welcomed by all his
        acquaintances.

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