births March 3 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist, founder of the Pullman Company (d. 1897) August births August 26 – T. Jefferson Coolidge, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1880–1881 (d. 1920). Unknown date births Eli H. Janney, inventor of the knuckle coupler (d. 1912). Deaths References