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EVENTS
July events
July 20
- The world's first
Excursion Train
is run by the
Midland Counties Railway
to allow members of the
Nottingham
Mechanics' Institute to visit an exhibition being held in
Leicester
.
Unknown date events
The
Wilmington And Raleigh Railroad
completes construction in
North Carolina
.
BIRTHS
January births
January 8
-
William Dean
,
Chief Mechanical Engineer
of
Great Western Railway
1877-1902 (d. 1905).
January 29
-
Henry H. Rogers
,
American
Financier
who helped finance and build the
Virginian Railway
(d.
1909
).
February births
February 7
-
Samuel W. Fordyce
, president of
St. Louis, Arkansas And Texas Railway
1886
-
1889
,
St. Louis Southwestern Railway
1890
-
1898
,
Kansas City Southern Railway
1900
(d.
1919
).
June births
June 6
-
William Dudley Chipley
, president of the
Baltimore And Ohio Railroad
1873-1876 (d. 1897).
June 16
-
William F. Nast
, president of the
Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway
September
1868
.
2006
.
August births
August 25
-
George C. Magoun
, Chairman of the Board of Directors for
Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway
in the late
1880s
(d.
1893
).
November births
November 24
-
Henry Kirke Porter
,
American
Steam Locomotive
builder and founder of
H. K. Porter, Inc
(d.
1921
).
DEATHS
REFERENCES
Fordyce, Jim (
2005
.
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