Iowa, a task that was not completed until 1884. In 1879, Dey was appointed railroad commissioner by Governor Gear and reappointed by Governors Sherman and Larrabee continuing thru 1896. Death and legacy Dey was a member of the Iowa State Historical Society at Iowa City and for twelve years served as its president. Dey died at Iowa City, Iowa, on July 12, 1911. Peter Anthony Dey's greatest contribution was the first survey of the Union Pacific Railroad. In Seneca Falls, New York, the name of the street connecting the residential area along the Seneca River in “the Flats” with Cayuga Street was named Dey Street in his honor until it was submerged in 1915 when "the water level of the reconstructed Cayuga-Seneca Canal was raised by the artificial lake now known as Van Cleef Lake." References External links Peter A. Dey correspondence, 1863-1865 1825 births 1911 deaths American civil engineers American railroad executives Iowa City, Iowa Explorers of the United States Union Pacific Railroad people 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American businesspeople