Daughter of Will­iam and Lae­ti­tia Wil­son Og­don, Ina at­tend­ed Greer Coll­ege in Hoopes­ton, Il­li­nois, and taught in Il­linois schools (1892-1900). She wrote her first pub­lished hymn, Open Wide the Win­dows, in 1892—the be­gin­ning of a long term col­lab­o­ra­tion with com­pos­er Charles Ga­bri­el. She mar­ried fel­low teach­er James West­on Og­don in 1896, and in 1900, they moved to To­le­do, Ohio. Their on­ly child, Wil­liam Du­ley Og­don, was born in 1901.

• Sanville, p. 20

1. After While, the Tri­als End­ed
2. America, Amer­i­ca, to Hea­then Eyes So Fair
3. As I Ev­er See My Sav­ior on the Cross of Cal­va­ry
4. At the Cross on Cal­va­ry’s Moun­tain
5. Begin Each Day with Je­sus
6. Blessed Are We That Our Lives
7. Brighten the Cor­ner Where You Are
8. Can I For­get My Dear Sav­ior’s Great Love?
9. Carry Your Cross with a Smile
10. Christ Found Me Lost in Sor­row’s Night
11. Come with Us Adown the Plea­sant
12. Could I Tell It
13. Count That Day Lost When Naught You Do for Je­sus
14. Do Not Think You Can Live With­out Je­sus
15. Down in the Val­ley of Sor­row and Sin
16. Down the Lone­ly Val­ley
17. Down the Nar­row Path­way
18. Ere You Left the Home­stead
19. From the Fields So White with Har­vest
20. Go Ye There­fore Teach All Na­tions
21. God Will Sweet­ly Care for Thee
22. Hark! I Hear My Name
23. Has Mo­ther’s Pray­er Been An­swered
24. Has the Jour­ney Been Long?
25. Have You Heard of the Fount of Sal­va­tion?
26. Hear the Gra­cious In­vi­ta­tion
27. How Grate­ful the Prais­es We Of­fer To­day
28. I Am Com­ing to My Sav­ior
29. I Am Dwell­ing in the Glo­ry
30. I Am Go­ing Home to Mo­ther
31. I Am List­en­ing to the Voic­es
32. I Am Look­ing Be­yond the Sha­dows
33. I Am So Glad That Je­sus Came
34. I Am Told of a Star, of a Beau­ti­ful Star
35. I Did Not Know That Je­sus Loved Me So
36. I Have Been Saved
37. I Hear the Sweep­ing of the Storm
38. I Know of a Coun­try Whose Peo­ple Are Free
39. I Love to Tell in Song and Sto­ry
40. I See It Now, It All Is Plain
41. I Sing of the Mer­cy of Je­sus, My Lord
42. I Want to Go to Hea­ven When My Work Is Done
43. I Would Give All in All to My Sav­ior
44. If I Could Tell of Je­sus as I Know Him
45. If It Were Not My Lord
46. In the Glad­ness of the Morn­ing
47. In the Morn­ing When the Mist Has Cleared Away
48. In the Roy­al Ar­my
49. Into the Plac­es So Dark and So Lone­ly
50. Is the Path­way Clear Which Your Feet Must Tread?
51. Jesus, How Can I Doubt Thee?
52. Jesus Wants to Help You with Your Hea­vy Load
53. Jesus Wants You, O My Bro­ther
54. Keeping Step with Je­sus
55. Leave Off Weep­ing
56. Let No­thing Keep You from Com­ing
57. Let Us Be About Our Mas­ter’s Bus­i­ness
58. Living Where the Heal­ing Wa­ters Flow
59. Lo, the Night Storm Breaks
60. Lonely? No the Day Is Ne­ver, Ne­ver Lone­ly
61. Long Ago in Child­hood’s Hap­py Days
62. Lord Is My Shep­herd, The
63. Many Are Turn­ing from Dark­ness to Light
64. Many Tri­als Meet Me Here
65. More Than These
66. Mother
67. My Glad Heart Is Sing­ing by Day and by Night
68. My Heart Is Hap­py All the Day
69. My Home Is the Beau­ti­ful Ci­ty of God
70. My Lord Is So Dear and So Pre­cious
71. My On­ly Hope Must Be in Je­sus
72. My Sav­ior Came When I Was Lost
73. My Soul Se­cure, No Fear I Know
74. News of Sal­va­tion with Joy, The
75. No Cloud Can Hide the Hea­ven’s Blue
76. No Gift of the World Can I Of­fer
77. No Night With­out a Star
78. O Come, My Fal­ter­ing Bro­ther, Come
79. O Heed Now the Sweet In­vi­ta­tion
80. On the Won­der­ful Morn­ing
81. Once Poor and Des­pised and a Stran­ger
82. Only a Sinn­er, Hum­ble and Low
83. Only the Best Is Good Enough for Je­sus
84. Open Wide the Win­dows
85. Peace Is There
86. Promise to Mot­her, The
87. Safe With­in My Ris­en Sav­ior
88. Shepherd’s Care, The
89. Since I Have Tast­ed the Joys of My Lord
90. So Great a Joy Per­vades My Heart
91. Someone Must Bid Adieu To­day
92. Sometime You Mean to Leave
93. Spirit’s Call Is Sweet and Clear, The
94. Story of Grace, The
95. Strike the Tid­ings, O Ye An­gels
96. Sweet Com­mun­ion Is Mine with Je­sus
97. Sweeten Your Deeds with Love
98. There Is a Name I Love to Hear
99. There’s a Call to No­ble Man­hood
100. There’s a Sav­ior Who Stands
101. There’s a Stain on Our Flag
102. They Tell Me That the Sto­ry of My Sav­ior Has Grown Old
103. This World Would Be a Hap­py Place
104. Thunder Roar­in’, Clouds Was Da’k
105. Thy Will Be Done, I’ve Learned to Say
106. ’Tis a World of Temp­ta­tion
107. Vision Goes Be­fore Me, Day by Day, A
108. We Are Here to Love
109. We Must Toil Through the Night
110. Wealth Can Give Ex­alt­ed Sta­tion
111. Weary and Worn in the Bat­tle of Life
112. We’re a Band of Bu­sy Child­ren
113. What Would Je­sus Do?
114. When Dark and Stor­my Is the Way
115. When His Bless­ed Mis­sion End­ed
116. When It Is Ev­en­ing, the Sun Bend­ing Low
117. When Our Jour­ney Shall Be O’er
118. When Sha­dows Sur­round You
119. When Storms up­on My Way Ap­pear
120. When the Voice of the Mas­ter Is Call­ing
121. When We Meet To­ge­ther on the Other Shore
122. When You Are Wea­ry
123. When You My Je­sus Un­der­stand
124. While I Re­joice in My Sav­ior
125. Who Will Be the Next to Fol­low Je­sus?
126. Who Will Open Mer­cy’s Door?
127. Will You Stay Thro’ the War­fare of Right Against Wrong?
128. Wonderful Friend, A
129. Would I My Bless­ed Lord Obey
130. You Have a Sav­ior So Lov­ing and True
131. You Must Open the Door
132. Your Sav­ior Has Writ­ten a Mes­sage to You
133. Your Sav­ior Is Call­ing from Cal­va­ry’s Tree