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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
Railroad executive Helge Alexander Haugan: Oct 26, 1847: May 17, 1909: Banking executive Anton C. Hesing: Jan 6, 1823: Mar 31, 1895: Owner of the Chicago-based Illinois Staats-Zeitung; Cook County Sheriff 1860–1862 Lived and died in Chicago Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard: Aug 22, 1802: Sep 14, 1886: Early Chicago developer Ray Kroc: Oct 5, 1902 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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)
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.
Railroad Wreck at Vaughan's on Illinois Central Railroad – Terrible Fatality Prevented by Engineer's Loyalty to Duty – A passenger's Story," The Times-Democrat, New Orleans. [8] The passenger in the article was Adam Hauser, formerly a member of The Times-Democrat telegraph staff. He was in a sleeper on Jones's southbound fast mail and said ...
The Monon Railroad (reporting mark MON), also known as the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway (reporting mark CIL) from 1897 to 1971, was an American railroad that operated almost entirely within the state of Indiana.