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William Butler Ogden (June 15, 1805 – August 3, 1877) was an American politician and railroad executive who served as the first Mayor of Chicago. [2] He was referred to as "the Astor of Chicago." [2] He was, at one time, the city's richest citizen. [3]
Mar 17, 2003 · William B. Ogden is a native of Delaware County, N. Y. He was born in the town of Walton, on the 15th of June, 1805. He is of the Eastern New Jersey Ogden family. His grandfather was in the Revolutionary War.
William Butler Ogden, like many great early Chicagoans, was an easterner. Born in 1805, he grew up in western New York and first came to Chicago in 1835 to supervise the sale of land that his...
Sep 24, 2024 · Mayor of Chicago, 1837–1838. “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.
Sep 1, 2019 · By Megan McKinney. Chicago’s North Side was a dense, muddy forest in the 1830s. It was real estate investment that took 30-year-old William Butler Ogden out to Chicago from his native New York State in 1835. And it was real estate investment that kept him there—after initial misgivings.
William B. Ogden arrived in Chicago in 1835 and for decades provided a crucial link with New York capital. Among the many enterprises of which he was a part: the Illinois and Michigan Canal; Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (the city's first); the City of Chicago (first mayor); Board of Sewerage; and the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
tracted Abraham Ogden, who was soon operating a modestly successful mercantile business. In 1820 William Butler Ogden, at the age of fifteen, set out for New York City in preparation for a career as an attorney. Not long after, however, his father suffered a stroke and young Ogden returned home as manager of the family business. Ogden acted
