namesake. Following his death, William B. Ogden left money to his hometown of Walton N.Y which was used for the construction of a library, completed in 1897, which bears his name, the William B. Ogden Free Library, and is still in use today. References 1805 births 1877 deaths Mayors of Chicago Members of the New York State Assembly 19th-century American railroad executives Union Pacific Railroad people Illinois Democrats Illinois Republicans People from Walton, New York People from the Bronx 19th-century American politicians Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)