early development and growth of the country's great railroad system. He influenced Frederick List, called the "Father of German Railroads" and Michel Chevalier, the Minister of Public Works under Louis Philippe and the most eminent engineer in France. Publications Francis William Rawle, Moncure Robinson. Central Rail Road: Reports of the Engineers of the Danville and Pottsville Rail Road Company ; with the Report of the Committee of the Board Thereon, October 15, 1831. Danville and Pottsville Rail Road Company. Clark & Raser, 1831 Moncure Robinson. Report on the Continuation of the Little Schuylkill Rail Road: From Port Clinton to Reading. J. and W. Kite, printers, 1834 Moncure Robinson, Jonathan Knight, Benjamin Hall Wright. Report of M. Robinson ... Jonathan Knight ... and Benjamin Wright ... Civil Engineers, upon the plan of the New-York and Erie Rail Road. Scott & Company, 1835 Moncure Robinson. Report of Moncure Robinson, Esq: Upon the Surveys for the Louisa Rail Road, Volume 38. T.W. White, 1836. Moncure Robinson. Obituary Notice of Henry Seybert. 1883 References Further reading Barbara E. Benson (ed.) Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Moncure Robinson: The Engineer as Agent of Technological Transfer. Proceedings Regional Conference in Economic History, Eleutherian Mills, 1974. Revelle W. Brown. The Reading Railroad – An Early History. The Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, New York, 1946. Revelle W. Brown. Moncure Robinson, Genius of America's Earliest Railways. The Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, New York, 1949. George H. Burgess and Miles C. Kennedy. Centennial History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1846-1946. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Railroad, 1949. James D. Dilts. The Great Road, the Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1993. Richard B Osborne, "Professional Biography of Moncure Robinson," William & Mary Quarterly, 2d Series, vol 1 #4, October 1921. Scott Nelson Reynolds. Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction. University of North Carolina Press, 2000. External links Robinson, Moncure (1802-1891) at Swem Library Special Collections, The College of William & Mary Robinson. 1802 births 1891 deaths 19th-century American railroad executives Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia) Businesspeople from Richmond, Virginia Moncure family