"transcontinental railroad"

Oakes Ames male, deceased (1873): American railroad executive, from Bristol County, Massachusetts, transcontinentalrailroad, Blacksmith, capitalism, gold…First Transcontinental Railroad; Oakes Ames (January 10, 1804 - May 8, 1873) was an American manufacturer, capitalist, and member of the United States House of Representatives from...

James Gadsden male, deceased (1858): Yale University, Charleston, from South Carolina, United States Army, american revolution, seminole…transcontinentalrailroad, South Carolina Railroad Company; James Gadsden (May 15, 1788 - December 25, 1858). Namesake of the Gadsden Purchase, in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that...

Grenville M. Dodge male, deceased (1916): from Massachusetts, General Mills Corporation, First Transcontinental Railroad, Union Army, frontier, Union Army general…transcontinentalrailroad; Grenville Mellen Dodge (April 12 1831 - January 3 1916) was a Union army officer on the frontier and during the Civil War, a U.S. Congressman,...

Collis Potter Huntington male, deceased (1900): Mark Hopkins, buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Central Pacific Railroad, American, transcontinentalrailroad, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx burials…Southern Pacific Railroad, American railroad executive; Collis Potter Huntington (April 16 or October 22 1821-August 13 1900) was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford,...

William Cornelius van Horne male, deceased (1915): Unitarian, Canadian Business Hall of Fame, From Joliet, Illinois, railway, Empress, Canadian…transcontinentalrailroad, Transcontinental Railway, Cuba Railroad Company; Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, KCMG (February 3, 1843 - September 11, 1915) was a pioneering North American railway executive. Born in Chelsea,...

William Butler Ogden male, deceased (1877): law school, Chicago and North Western Railway, New York State Legislature, railroads, real estate, from Chicago…transcontinentalrailroad, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, First Transcontinental Railroad, American railroad executive, Mississippi and Missouri Railroad; William Butler Ogden (June 15 1805 - August 3 1877) was the first Mayor of Chicago. Ogden was born in Walton, New York. When still a teenager, his...

David Eccles male, deceased (1912): Scottish, paisley, American, transcontinentalrailroad, liberty, eden…Oregon and California Railroad; David Eccles was an American businessman who founded many businesses in Utah. Eccles was born in Paisley, Scotland to William and Sarah Hutchinson...

Antoine Leroux male: mexican-american war, San Juan river, Lorenzo Sitgreaves, Verde Valley, Little Colorado River, Wupatki National Monument…transcontinentalrailroad; Joaquin Antoine Leroux, also known as Watkins Leroux was a celebrated 19th century mountain man and trail guide based in New Mexico. Leroux was a...

John S. Casement male, deceased (1909): Frances Jennings, First Transcontinental Railroad, american civil war, Colonel, transcontinentalrailroad, Major; John Stephen "Jack" Casement was a Union general during the American Civil War and directed the constructional phase of the Transcontinental...

William Robbins male, deceased (1933): american civil war, transcontinentalrailroad, Union Army soldier, veteran, western settler; William Robbins (1848-1933) was an early settler of the Curlew Valley of Utah and Idaho. He was a veteran of the American Civil War and assisted in...

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