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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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