Events

Unknown date events

• The Leiper Railroad connecting Crum Creek to Ridley Creek, Pennsylvania opens.

Births

January births

• January 3 - Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869–1870 (d. 1870)

April births

• April 15 - Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1854).

June births

• June 12 - David Levy Yulee, Florida railroad executive (d. 1886).

September births

• September 19 - Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (d. 1892).

Unknown date births

• Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (d. 1892).
• Joseph Harrison, Jr., partner in the American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Eastwick and Harrison (d. 1874).
• William S. Hudson, superintendent of American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (d. 1881).

Deaths

References

• Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas. p 42, 114.