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Casey Jones – Illinois Central engineer whose death in a 1900 train wreck was made famous in song and legend; Jeme Tien Yow – distinguished Chinese railroad engineer often called the Father of China's railroad; Albert Lacombe – made a railroad through Blackfoot territory; Jordan Anastasoff
Illinois Central Railroad people (17 P) K. Kountze family (12 P) L. Lehigh Valley Railroad people (9 P) Long Island Rail Road people (12 P) N. Northern Pacific ...
A railway pioneer is someone who has made a significant contribution to the historical development of the railway (US: railroad). This definition includes locomotive engineers, railway construction engineers, operators of railway companies, major railway investors and politicians, of national and international importance for the development of rail transport.
Oliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana (Centerville) Harry S. New, U.S. Postmaster General (Indianapolis) Mike Pence, former congressman, former governor of Indiana, 2013–2017, and 48th vice president of the United States under Donald Trump ; Dennis Pennington, State Senator and early abolitionist (Central Barren)
Name Image Birth Death Known for Association Reference David Davis: Mar 9, 1815: Jun 26, 1886: Appointed to US Supreme Court by Abraham Lincoln: Lived and died in Bloomington Joseph W. Fifer: Oct 28, 1840: Aug 6, 1938: 19th Governor of Illinois: Attended Illinois Wesleyan University, served as city attorney of Bloomington John Marshall Hamilton ...
Born and raised in Illinois until age 16; funeral held in Illinois, but interred in Massachusetts. [1] David Abidor (born 1992), soccer player; Margaret Abbott (1878–1955), first modern-era Olympic United States female champion. Lived during her teens and learned her Olympic sport of golf in Illinois. [2]
Abram A. Hammond – lieutenant governor of Indiana, governor of Indiana; Edward A. Hannegan – U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, diplomat; Russell Benjamin Harrison – son of President Benjamin Harrison; William H. Harrison – five-term U.S. Congressman [1] Nicholas Hood – Detroit City Council member and Congregationalist minister
Eric Holcomb, Governor of Indiana; William A. Ketcham, Indiana Attorney General (1894–1898), Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic (1920–1921). Jon Krahulik, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (1990–1993) Daisy Riley Lloyd, first female African American to serve in the Indiana legislature; Richard Lugar, U.S. Senator from ...