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Richard Trevithick moves to Peru with the intention of designing and building Steam Locomotive s for mining operations there.

BIRTHS

January births

January 3 - Samuel C. Pomeroy , president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway 1863 - 1868 (d. 1891 ).

March births

March 1 - John Souther , founder of Globe Locomotive Works (d. 1911 ).

August births

August 4 - Russell Sage , director for Union Pacific Railroad (d. 1906)

August 6 - Thomas Crampton , English Steam Locomotive builder (d. 1888 ).

August 24 - Daniel Gooch , Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway (d. 1889 ).

Unknown date births

Aretas Blood , the executive who created Manchester Locomotive Works , the American manufacturer of Steam Locomotive s (d. 1897 ).

DEATHS

REFERENCES

Newcomb, Kenneth W., '' The Makers of the Mold ''. Retrieved February 15 2005 .

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