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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 ...
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]
The Indiana Railway Museum was founded in 1961 in the Decatur County town of Westport with one locomotive and three passenger cars. The museum relocated to Greensburg and then in 1978 to French Lick after the Southern Railway deeded a total of sixteen miles of right of way stretching from West Baden, Indiana, approximately one mile north of French Lick, to a small village named Dubois, to the ...
The museum was founded in 1953 by ten people who joined to purchase Indiana Railroad interurban car 65. Originally called the Illinois Electric Railway Museum, the museum was located on the grounds of the Chicago Hardware Foundry in North Chicago. In 1961, it was renamed to the Illinois Railway Museum to reflect its
Union Depot Railroad Museum: Mendota: LaSalle: Northern Illinois: Railroad: Operated by the Mendota Museum & Historical Society, includes rolling stock, HO scale model of Mendota in the 1940s: Unity Temple: Oak Park: Cook: Chicago area: Historic site: Church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright: University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery ...
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)