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Description |
A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Ogle Stoops, David City, Nebraska, wearing a checked double-breasted suit with knee-length pants, white shirt, dark knotted tie, black leggings and dark high-top shoes, standing in front of a painted backdrop of a conservatory with flower-filled pots, ferns and palm tree. |
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Historical Notes |
Benjamin Ogle Stoops was born in Nebraska, January 11, 1890, to Charles and Maggie Perkins Stoops. His father worked as a clothier. His grandfather, Benjamin O. Perkins, who was a prominent banker in David City and his uncle, Benjamin O. Perkins II, who was an insurance agent, lived in the Stoops home. Ogle attended the Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri. He married Florence Shrader, January 1914, in Lincoln, Nebraska, and they had one son, Charles. Florence died in February 1920, and Ogle moved back to David City with his son. They lived with his parents, and Ogle worked in his father's clothing store until 1931. In 1938 Ogle opened the Stoops Men's Shop in South Pasadena, California, which he ran until 1956. Ogle married "Margaret" Mignon Shramek of Crete, Nebraska, July 14, 1940. He died November 18, 1956, in Yucaipa, California and is buried in the David City Cemetery. |
