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Ogden Law Firm

Carter Ogden is the principal partner of the Ogden Law Firm in 1987.

Edith Brown is his secretary. She has been in the firm since shortly before Carter joined the firm.

Joan is also a secretary in the firm.

As the 1987 story, "Back to the Homeplace" begins, Douglas Johnson has recently come from St. Louis to be a junior lawyer with firm.

The Odgen Law Firm has handled the Bevin and McDonald families' legal business for many, many years.

Here is an excerpt of Carter Ogden at work from "Back to the Homeplace" on Tuesday, February 17, 1987, very early in the story in the book.

Don Kirk joined the law firm in the fall of 1987. He and Carter had been in law school together, but Carter returned to Oak Springs while Don had stayed in St. Louis and practiced law with corporate clients and had also taken some political appointments. He was now ready to finish his career, with Carter, in Oak Springs. Don's wife, Norma, had stayed in St. Louis with their son, Brian, while he finished High School. Norma had moved to Oak Springs in the Spring of 1988. Brian went on to college and law school, graduating a year after Christopher.

Norma died of breast cancer in 1992. She was just a couple of years older than Linda (Don had married younger, as had Carter).

Some history of the firm:

"Carter mentioned that recently he had been thinking more about his father and grandfather who had each been the lead attorney in the Odgen law down through the years here in Oak Springs, and that now with Christopher in that position it brought back memories of the other transfers. As he reminisced he shared that his grandfather, Carleton Palmer Odgen, always known as C.P., had first taken over the practice in 1925 when the lone attorney at the time died unexpectedly, and C.P. was asked by the local banker to come down from St. Louis to help them out. He had never looked back. C.P. and his young wife moved to Oak Spring, Carter was born a year later, and this became their home.

Carter had gone to Washington University Law School, like his father had, and joined the firm in 1954. C.P. retired in 1965 and Carter became the lead attorney in a transaction very similar to the current transfer. C.P. had died in 1979 just short of his 80th birthday."

Carleton Palmer (C.P.) Odgen, born July 1, 1899. Died during first half of 1979.

Carter Pomroy Odgen, born 1926, joined firm in 1954.

Christopher Perry Odgen, born 1969.

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