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William B. Ogden, Chicago's First Mayor.
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THE Hall of the Chicago Historical Society was filled by prominent citizens and old settlers to witness the proceedings on the presentation of the portrait of William B. Ogden.
On the platform were the Hon. Elihu B. Washburne, Judge Thomas Drummond, ex-Chief-Justice John Dean Caton; and on the right were the ex-Mayors of Chicago, B. W. Raymond, Isaac L. Milliken, John C. Haines, Julien S. Rumsey, Roswell B. Mason, Joseph Medill, and Thomas Hoyne, and many old settlers of Chicago.
Edwin H. Sheldon, Esq., on behalf of Mrs. Ogden, said:
"MR. PRESIDENT: — The Chicago Historical Society, some months since, passed a resolution, requesting Mrs. Ogden, the widow of the late William B. Ogden, to give to the Society a portrait of her late husband, who had been one of its founders, and always, during his life, a liberal benefactor. The resolution referred to Mr. Ogden, in apprpopriate terms, as one of the founders of the City, and as one who had projected and largely aided the execution of many great enterpirises, the benefits of which the peole of Chicago, and the North-West, are rea
Ogden, William B.
Born: Delaware County, New York
Died: New York, New York
Flourished:Chicago, Illinois
William B. Ogden was a businessman, postmaster, state legislator, real estate investor, and the first mayor of Chicago, Illinois. Born in Walton, New York, Ogden began preparatory studies for a career in law when his father's ill health forced William, at the age of sixteen, to assume management of the family's vast land holdings and his father's lumber and mercantile interests. In , Ogden received appointment as postmaster of Walton, a post he held until he moved to Chicago. In , Ogden won election, as a Jacksonian Democrat, to the New York State Assembly on a platform to construct the New York & Erie Railroad. Around this time, he began investing in Chicago real estate and moved there in June He opened a real estate house and continued investing in land in Illinois and New York for the rest of his life. In , Ogden became the town's first mayor. He also became heavily involved in railroad development, serving as president or board member for a large number of railroad companies. Ogden took an interest in a number of other issues and businesses. He was a pro
Mayor William B. Ogden Biography
Mayor of Chicago, –
“I was born close to a saw mill, was early left an orphan, christened in a millpond, graduated at a log school house, and at 14 fancied I could do any thing I turned my hand to, and that nothing was impossible…”—William B. Ogden
- Democratic Party
- Elected first mayor of Chicago May 2, ; defeated John H. Kinzie (Whig)
Biographical
- Born June 15, in Walton, N.Y.
- Elected to the Legislature of New York in
- Elected to the Illinois Senate in
- Married Miss Mariana Arnot in
- Died August 3, in Fordham Heights, N.Y.
- Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
Sources
- Andreas, A.T. History of Chicago: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. A.T. Andreas, –
- Grossman, James R., Ann Durkin Keating and Janice L. Reiff, editors. Encyclopedia of Chicago. University of Chicago Press,
William B. Ogden
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William B. Ogden is a native of Delaware County, N. Y. He was born in the town of Walton, on the 15th of June, He is of the Eastern New Jersey Ogden family.
His grandfather was in the Revolutionary War. His father, Abraham Ogden, when eighteen years old, left Morristown, N. J., soon after the close of that war, intending to settle in the new city of Washington, the future Capital of the United States. He had proceeded on his journey as far as Philadelphia, when he met a brother or relative of his friend, the late Governor Mahlon Dickerson, of New Jersey, who gave him such a glowing account of the Upper Delaware country, and of the immense forests of pine timber upon the banks of the Delaware, promising great prospective wealth from its accessibility to the Philadelphia market, that he was induced to accompany Mr. Dickerson to that, then, wilderness country, where he finally settled, and passed a life of active usefulness, engaged in such employments as were best suited to develop and build up the home of his adoption. He was regarded
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