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- March 9
Leland Stanford
- 1824 – Leland Stanford (pictured), a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California, is born (d. 1893).
- 1847 – The Richmond and Danville Railroad is chartered in Virginia.
- 1887 – Nathaniel Lamson Howard, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1925-1929, is born (d. 1949).
- 1957 – Robert Whitelegg, locomotive superintendent for London, Tilbury and Southend Railway 1910-1912, and for Glasgow and South Western Railway 1918-1923, general manager of Beyer, Peacock and Company 1923-1929, dies (b. 1871).
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