{"id":25,"date":"2015-09-25T15:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T15:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2021-01-16T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T16:44:00","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/about-us\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">William B. Ogden was born here, in Walton, in 1805.&nbsp; Mr. Ogden grew up in Walton and worked as a postmaster. Later he traveled west and helped establish the city of Chicago, Illinois. He served as Chicago&#8217;s first mayor. When William. B. Ogden died&nbsp;&nbsp;in 1877, he left some money to his hometown.&nbsp; Mr. William Wheeler, one of the trustees of Mr. Ogden\u2019s estate, traveled to Walton in 1892 and talked to a few people in the community about the best way to use the money. They suggested that the money be used to build a library.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">So, it was built.&nbsp; Native bluestone was taken from the stone quarries on Marvin Hollow and on Shepard Hill, at a cost of $13,500. Construction began in 1896 and was completed in 1897. The library was designed by the firm Morris and Walker, of New York City, and was built by Alexander Carman, of Binghamton. The library first opened on January 29, 1899.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about our library, please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/services\/local-history-genealogy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"280\">local history page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William B. Ogden was born here, in Walton, in 1805.&nbsp; Mr. Ogden grew up in Walton and worked as a postmaster. Later he traveled west and helped establish the city of Chicago, Illinois. He served as Chicago&#8217;s first mayor. When William. B. Ogden died&nbsp;&nbsp;in 1877,&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/about-us\/history\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/2278"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/walton\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}