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The Railroad Tycoon who Built Chicago: New Biography of William Butler Ogden by Chicago History on Oct 28, 2009In a letter from Paris, dated 22 August 1877, Mary Todd Lincoln, the president’s widow, wrote, “This morning, in a New York paper of Aug. 8, I read the announcement of Mr. Wm. B. Ogden’s death. In former times, he was a very prominent citizen...