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"Dedicated from the start"

Background

Early Career

  • Robert Harold Ogle was born on April 3, 1886 in Washington, D.C. to Jeremiah and Mary Ellen Ogle
  • He attended the public schools in Washington
  • He entered the secretarial field, finding employment for the United States Senate Appropriations Committee
  • He developed a keen knowledge of fiscal affairs of the Federal Government, and a habit of careful research

Education

Career Heights

  • Student at the M Street School.
  • Studied liberal arts and business
  • After graduation in 1905, Robert Harold Ogle entered Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
  • He was an African American pioneer in his Capitol Hill position
  • In 1927, Jewel Ogle chaired the fraternity’s first Historical Commission
  • His efforts, along with Brother Wesley’s, produced the first edition of The History of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Development in Negro College Life in 1929

Professional Life

Background & Undergrad.

Additional Information

Alpha Chapter & Founding

  • Fraternity took shape in Jewel Ogle's disheveled combination study and bedroom
  • He established Beta Chapter at Howard University in December of 1907
  • It was Jewel Ogle who proposed the colors of “Old Gold and Black” for the organization
  • Died from appendicitis
  • Believed in accidental distinction of the founders.
  • Curiously, Jewel Ogle’s grave had been unmarked for years.

Robert Harold Ogle - 1886-1936

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