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.

Lyrics

1. Brighten the Cor­ner Where You Are
2. Carry Your Cross with a Smile
3. Could I Tell It
4. Hark! I Hear My Name
5. I Have Been Saved
6. Living Where the Heal­ing Wa­ters Flow
7. More Than These
8. Open Wide the Win­dows
9. Promise to Mot­her, The
10. What Would Je­sus Do?
11. Who Will Open Mer­cy’s Door?
12. You Must Open the Door (© 1934)