Events

Unknown date events

• The Interstate Commerce Act in the United States creates the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the prices for hauling freight on American railraods.
• Reuben Wells is appointed as shop superintendent of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works.
• Stuyvesant Fish becomes president of the Illinois Central.

Births

September births

• September 5 - Charles Fairburn, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1944–1945 (d. 1945).

Deaths

April deaths

• April 20 - Horatio G. Brooks, founder of Brooks Locomotive Works (b. 1828).

August deaths

• August 14 - Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act (b. 1827)

References

• Southern Tier West Regional Planning and Development Board, STW historical figures / Horatio Brooks. Retrieved February 9 2005.