1821 in rail transport

1821 in rail transport

Events

Unknown date events

* Plans are formed for the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England, as authorised by the British Parliament this year. The railway opened in 1825.

Births

May births

* May 8 - William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1885).

August births

* August 10 - Jay Cooke, financier who built the Northern Pacific Railway (d. 1905).

October births

* October 21 - Collis P. Huntington, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (d. 1900) [cite book| title=Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad| author=Ambrose, Stephen E.| year=2000| publisher=Touchstone| id=ISBN 0-7432-0317-8| pages=pp 47-48 A footnote in the text cites the data to "Collis Huntington Memoir, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley."] .

December births

* December 17 - Frederick W. Lander, Chief Civil Engineer for the Pacific Railroad (d. 1862).

Deaths

References


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