Railroad 1889-1890 and 1892-1909, dies (b. 1843). March deaths March 13 - William Jackson Palmer, builder of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (born 1836). May deaths May 19 - Henry H. Rogers, American financier who helped finance and build the Virginian Railway (born 1840). July deaths July 23 - Ernest F. Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer who established the first Congo railway (born 1844). September deaths September 9 - E. H. Harriman, executive in charge of both the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific (born 1848). October deaths March 24 - Edward Entwistle, first driver of the Rocket locomotive (born 1815). References