begins operation on what will become the Caspar, South Fork and Eastern Railroad. Births May births May 9 – H. P. M. Beames, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1920–1922 (d. 1948). September births September 26 – Eric Geddes, first Minister of Transport (U.K.) 1919–1921 (d. 1937). Deaths January deaths January 18 – William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway (b. 1807). References