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EVENTS

July events

July - James Hooper succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad .

21 July - A significant number of railway acts received Royal Assent from Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom at the height of Railway Mania in the United Kingdom .

August events

August - Benjamin Loder succeeds James Hooper as president of the Erie Railroad .

Unknown date events

William Swinburne , shop foreman for Rogers, Ketchum And Grosvenor , leaves Rogers to form his own locomotive manufacturing company, Swinburne, Smith & Company .

Walter McQueen becomes Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Hudson River Railroad .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

Unknown date deaths

William F. Harnden , founder of Harnden And Company express, first person to send an express shipment by rail (b. 1812 ).

REFERENCES

'' Erie Railroad presidents ''. Retrieved March 15 2005 .

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society ( 2005 .