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EVENTS

February events

February 25 - The Grand Duke of Hesse and Grand Duke of Baden in present day Germany agree to construct the Main-Neckar-Eisenbahn from Heidelberg to a connection with the state railway in Baden.

October events

October - Horatio Allen succeeds William Maxwell as president of the Erie Railroad .

Unknown date events

John Cooke , future founder of Cooke Locomotive Works , is promoted to superintendent at American Steam Locomotive manufacturing company Rogers Locomotive And Machine Works .

BIRTHS

February births

February 3 - William Cornelius Van Horne , oversaw the major construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway , youngest superintendent of Illinois Central Railroad (d. 1915 ).

November births

November 27 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II , president of New York Central railroad (d. 1899 ).

DEATHS

REFERENCES

Stratton, Fred, '' Erie Railroad presidents ''. Retrieved March 2 2005 .