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EVENTS

January events

January 13 - Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded for a railroad Scale .

April events

April 11 - The Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway company (PLM) is formed from the amalgamation of the Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée (LM) and the Chemin de fer de Paris à Lyon (PL) companies.

June events

June 4 - The first central connection to the Mississippi River is made when the Ohio And Mississippi Railroad connects Cincinnati, Ohio , to St. Louis, Missouri .

October events

October - Charles Moran succeeds Homer Ramdell as president of the Erie Railroad .

December events

December 15 - George S. Griggs is awarded for a Steam Locomotive fire arch developed by Matthew Baird .

Unknown date events

Aretas Blood succeeds O. W. Bayley as superintendent of American Steam Locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works .

Daniel Drew joins the Board of Directors for the Erie Railroad

The first shipment of dressed Beef by rail is sent from the Chicago Stockyards ; the beef is packed in ice and shipped in conventional Boxcar s.

Ginery Twichell becomes president of the Boston And Worcester Railroad .

BIRTHS

November births

November 17 - William Benson Storey , president of Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway 1920 - 1933 (d. 1940 ).

DEATHS

Unknown date deatha

Jasper Grosvenor , American Financier who partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form Rogers, Ketchum And Grosvenor (b. 1794 ).

REFERENCES

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

New York Times ( 2005 .

¹ p 43-44.