Vanderbilt, American financier who created the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller New York railroads (b. 1794). March deaths March 9 – Oliver Ames Jr., president of Union Pacific Railroad 1866–1871, brother of Oakes Ames (b. 1807). April deaths April 22 – James P. Kirkwood, designer of Starrucca Viaduct (b. 1807). May deaths May 19 – Matthew Baird, second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works (b. 1817). August deaths August 3 – William Butler Ogden, president of the Chicago and North Western Railway (b. 1805). September deaths September 2 – Alvin Adams, founder of Adams Express, one of the first LCL freight companies in the United States, dies (b. 1804). December events December 26 – Jean-Jacques Meyer, French-born steam locomotive designer (b. 1804) References Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers. Retrieved February 9, 2005. Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 12 and July 22, 2005.