Alpheus Beede Stickney, first president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1884–1909 (d. 1916). August births August 23 – Brayton Ives, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1893–1896 (d. 1914). August 25 – George C. Magoun, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1880s (d. 1893). November births November 17 – Edmund Morel, English-born civil engineer in Japan (d. 1871). November 24 – Henry Kirke Porter, American steam locomotive builder and founder of H. K. Porter, Inc (d. 1921). Deaths April deaths April 12 – Franz Anton von Gerstner, Bohemian-born railway civil engineer (b. 1796) References