John Ogden, “the Pilgrim,” came to the New World in 1641 from Lancashire County, England. He Ogden family is one of the oldest, most distinguished family lines in America. Chicago and North Western track in Midwest and Great Plains states in 1900 209 14.1. Additions to the Chicago and North Western Railway Company, after consolidation with the Galena and Chicago Union, before 1900 208 12.2. Bushels of wheat transported by competitive carriers, 1853 118 12.1. Galena and Chicago Union Railroad passenger traffic, 1851–1856 (fiscal years) 118 7.2. The effect of financial panics on aggregate land values in Chicago, 1833–1879 87 7.1.
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Ogden Free Library, Walton, New York 265 Christ Episcopal Church, Walton, New York 266 Tables 6.1. South Side of Chicago after the Great Fire 236 Architect John Van Osdel 246 William B. Young Scammon 106 Pioneer, the Galena and Chicago Union’s first steam-powered locomotive 111 Galena and Chicago Union Railroad depot 114 McCormick’s original Virginia Reaper 122 Cyrus McCormick 123 Map of the Chicago Harbor showing sand and gravel accretion 158 Plat map of Brady’s Bend Iron Company property, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 165 Peshtigo Company woodenware factory, Peshtigo, Wisconsin 169 Peshtigo Company steam-driven lumber mill, Peshtigo Harbor, Wisconsin 170 Peshtigo Company lumber mill, Peshtigo, Wisconsin 171 Villa Boscobel, William Ogden’s New York estate 193 Map of combined routes of the Chicago and North Western and the Galena and Chicago Union Railroads 205 Chicago and North Western Railway passenger depot 206 Home of Mahlon Ogden, spared by the Chicago fire 234 James Episcopal Church, Chicago 71 Dearborn Street swing bridge, Chicago 91 Gurdon S. Ogden as a young man 7 Tom Thumb, an early railroad locomotive 10 Map of Cannonsville (Dickinson City), New York 23 First printed map of Chicago, 1834 53 St. Prelude 1 The Little Railroad That Could 6 Stately Edifices and Lofty Spires 18 Go West, Young Man 38 The Benevolence of the Butcher 60 Mister Mayor 73 Harnessing the Iron Horse 96 The First Businessman 121 The Best of Everything 142 Building an Empire 157 An Overgrown Gawk of a Village 176 The Minnow Swallows the Whale 196 The Gates of Hell 221 Out of the Ashes 244 A Whole-Souled Man 258įigures William B. List of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi 1. To the citizens of Chicago and to the people of the Northwest: Would you behold William Butler Ogden’s monument, look around you! -A. ∞ĭisclaimer: Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the eBook.
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