Events

May events

  • May 24 – Monmouth Railway authorised by Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom for a railway or tramroad from the Forest of Dean to Monmouth, on the Welsh Borders, including provision to charge for passengers.

Unknown date events

  • The Leiper Railroad connecting Crum Creek to Ridley Creek, Pennsylvania opens.

Births

January births

  • January 3 – Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869–1870 (d. 1870).

April births

  • April 15 – Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1854).
  • April 17 – Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (d. 1892).

June births

  • June 12 – David Levy Yulee, Florida railroad executive (d. 1886).

July births

  • July 27 – H. H. Hunnewell, director for Illinois Central Railroad 1862-1871, president of Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad, president of Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad, is born (died 1902).

September births

  • September 19 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (d. 1892).