Editing William B. Ogden (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:William Butler Ogden Sarcophagus 2010.JPG|thumb|The sarcophagus of William Butler Ogden in [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx)|Woodlawn Cemetery]]]]
He married Marianna Tuttle Arnot (1825–1904).<ref name="VanAlstyne1907"/> Marianna was the daughter of Scottish born John Arnot and Harriet (née Tuttle) Arnot.<ref name="VanAlstyne1907">{{cite book|last1=Van Alstyne|first1=Lawrence|title=The Ogden Family, Elizabethtown Branch|date=1907|publisher=Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press|location=[[New Haven, CT]]|url=https://archive.org/stream/theogdenfamilyel00vana/theogdenfamilyel00vana_djvu.txt|access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref>  In New York, he named his home in the [[Highbridge, Bronx]] (named after the bridge now called Aqueduct Bridge over the Harlem River connecting Manhattan and the Bronx) Villa Boscobel.<ref name="WBOObit1877"/>

Ogden died at his home in the Bronx on Friday, August 3, 1877.<ref name="WBOObit1877">{{cite news|title=A Representative American.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1877/08/04/archives/a-representative-american.html|access-date=5 April 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=4 August 1877}}</ref>  The funeral was held August 6, 1877, with several prominent pallbearers including, [[Gouverneur Morris Jr.|Gouverneur Morris III]], William A. Booth, [[Parke Godwin (journalist)|Parke Godwin]], [[Oswald Ottendorfer]], William C. Sheldon, Martin Zborowski, and [[Andrew Haswell Green|Andrew H. Green]].<ref name="1877Funeral"/>  He was interred at [[Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx]].<ref name="1877Funeral">{{cite news|title=Funeral of William B. Ogden. Simple and Impressive Services in St. James' Church at Fordham--Bishop Clarkson's Discourse Upon The Dead Millionaire's Life and Its Lessons|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1877/08/07/archives/funeral-of-william-b-ogden.html|access-date=5 April 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=7 August 1877}}</ref>

Ogden, who had no children, left behind an estate valued at $10 million{{efn|{{inflation|US|10000000|1877|fmt=eq}}{{inflation/fn|US}}}} in 1877.<ref name="ClassicChicago1"/> Some of the money was used to fund a graduate school of science at the [[Old University of Chicago]].<ref name="ClassicChicago1"/> Much was left to his [[niece]] Eleanor Wheeler, who married [[Alexander C. McClurg]].<ref name="ClassicChicago1">{{cite web |last1=McKinney |first1=Megan |title=William Ogden Dynasty in Chicago {{!}} Classic Chicago Magazine |url=https://www.classicchicagomagazine.com/mr-ogden-in-chicago/ |website=www.classicchicagomagazine.com |publisher=Classic Chicago Magazine |access-date=4 January 2022 |date=September 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=McKinney |first1=Megan |title=The City's Earliest Enduring Dynasty |url=https://www.classicchicagomagazine.com/tag/william-butler-ogden/ |website=www.classicchicagomagazine.com |publisher=Classic Chicago Magazine |access-date=4 January 2022 |date=March 13, 2021}}</ref>

===Legacy===
Namesakes of William B. Ogden include a stretch of [[U.S. Highway 34]], called Ogden Avenue in Chicago and its suburbs, Ogden International School of Chicago, which is located on Walton Street in Chicago, and [[Ogden Slip]], a man-made harbor near the mouth of the [[Chicago River]]. Ogden Avenue in [[Bronx|The Bronx]] is also named after him, as is Ogden, Iowa.<ref name="Harpster2009">{{cite book| last =Harpster| first =Jack| year =2009| title =The Railroad Tycoon who Built Chicago: A Biography of William B. Ogden| publisher =[[Southern Illinois University Press]]| location =Carbondale, Ill.| isbn =9780809329175| url =http://www.jackharpster.com/william_ogden_biography.html}}</ref> The Arnot-Odgen Memorial Hospital, founded by his wife Mariana, also bears his namesake. Following his death, William B. Ogden left money to his hometown of Walton, New York, 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.