Funeral services were held at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (55th Street and 5th Avenue) on June 13. He is interred under a distinctive Celtic cross at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York. Descendants Through his daughter Julia, he was the grandfather of Sidney Dillon Ripley I (1863–1905) and Louis Arthur Dillon Ripley (1878–1958), himself the father of Dillon's great-grandson Sidney Dillon Ripley II (1913–2001), a noted ornithologist, conservationist and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years. Legacy Dillon, Montana is named for him as it was an early terminus for the railroad. Sidney, Nebraska is also named for him. See also List of railroad executives References External links Picture of Mr Dillon 1812 births 1892 deaths Union Pacific Railroad people 19th-century American railroad executives People from Northampton, Fulton County, New York Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)