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).
Unknown date births Joseph Harrison Jr., partner in the American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Eastwick and Harrison (d. 1874). William S. Hudson, superintendent of American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (d. 1881). References