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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

M. B. OGDEN, M. D., homeopathic physician and surgeon, Joliet; has practiced medicine in 
Joliet for the past thirteen years; he is a son of Dr. S. G. OGDEN, late of Cherry Valley, 
IL, and who died in 1874, at the age of 75 years; he belongs to a family of physicians, his 
great-grandfather, grandfather, father, two brothers and some ten cousins being members of 
the medical profession. Dr. OGDEN was born in Toronto, Province of Ontario, Oct. 24, 1834; 
he received his general education at the University of Toronto, and then pursued a medical 
course of three years at Ralph's Medical School in that city. In 1858, he went to Wisconsin 
and practiced nearly five years in Fond du Lac, where he was largely interested in flour 
manufacturing; thence he removed to Rockford, IL, and during the winter of 1863-64, attended 
the Hahnemann (Homeopathic) Medical College in Chicago; in 1865, he located in Joliet, where 
he still remains; in the winter of 1867-8, he pursued his second course of lectures at the 
Hahnemann Medical College, graduating in February, 1868. Associated with him in practice is 
his brother, E. J. OGDEN, of Chicago, who visits Joliet once a week. Dr. OGDEN was married 
in August 1859, to Miss S. M. PITCHER, of Fond du Lac, Wis., and has one son - Edward C., 
now a student in the Hahnemann Medical College, in Chicago.