Dearborn Station was,beginning in the late 1800s,one of six intercity train stations serving downtown Chicago,Illinois. It remained in operation until May 1,1971. Built in 1883,it is located at Dearborn and Polk Streets,adjacent to Printers Row. The station was owned by the Chicago &Western Indiana Railroad,which itself was owned by the companies operating over its line. The station is now a shopping mall housing office,retail,and entertainment spaces.
Edmund Pendleton Gaines was a career United States Army officer who served for nearly fifty years,and attained the rank of major general by brevet. He was one of the Army's senior commanders during its formative years in the early to mid-1800s,and was a veteran of the War of 1812,Seminole Wars,Black Hawk War,and Mexican–American War.
Miss Susan is a daytime drama which aired on NBC from March 12 to December 28,1951. The main writer was William Kendall Clarke. The show,originating from Philadelphia and later retitled Martinsville,U.S.A.,aired for 15 minutes at 3:00 p.m. ET on weekdays,and starred Susan Peters,who had previously garnered critical acclaim as a film actress before suffering an accidental gunshot wound that left her paraplegic. It was the first program with a handicapped person as the star.
The Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad Company was Evansville,Indiana's first railroad company. It was first chartered in 1853 by William D. Griswold,a lawyer in Terre Haute,Indiana. It was renamed Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad in 1877. It went on to be consolidated without railroads of the region into the Chicago &Eastern Illinois Railroad. Chauncey Rose was a key player in financing its construction.
Chauncey Rose was a successful American businessman of the 19th century.
Andrew James Peters was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Boston and as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is today best remembered for being a suspect in the death of Starr Faithfull.
In the U.S. state of Illinois,U.S. Route 36 (US 36) is an east–west highway that runs across the central portion of the state. It runs east from Missouri over the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge over the Mississippi River with Interstate 72. The eastern terminus of U.S. 36 in Illinois is located near the unincorporated area of Raven near the Illinois-Indiana state line. This is a distance of 216.47 miles (348.37 km).
James McCrea (1848–1913) was the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1907 to 1913.
Events from the year 1904 in the United States.
Pamela Lynn Carter was the first black woman to serve as a state's attorney general. She served as Indiana Attorney General from 1993 to 1997.
Leo Carter DeTray was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football the Wittenberg University in Springfield,Ohio in 1910,University of Mississippi in 1912 and at Knox College in Galesburg,Illinois from 1915 to 1916,compiling a career college football coaching record of 10–7–2. DeTray was also the head basketball coach at Knox from 1915 to 1917,tallying a mark of 10–10.
Lucy Higgs Nichols was an African American escaped slave,and a nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Known affectionately as "Aunt Lucy",her sole photo shows her surrounded by veterans of the 23rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment,of the Army of the Tennessee. She was as devoted to the soldiers as they were to her and her daughter,Mona. She lost her daughter and husband during the Civil War,and after the war ended,settled in New Albany,Indiana,where she worked as a housekeeper to several officers and eventually married her second husband,John Nichols. She lived in New Albany with her husband for more than forty years,until her death on January 25,1915,at the Floyd County Poor House.
George DeBaptiste was a prominent African-American conductor on the Underground Railroad in southern Indiana and Detroit,Michigan. Born free in Virginia,he moved as a young man to the free state of Indiana. In 1840,he served as valet and then White House steward for US President William Henry Harrison,who was from that state. In the 1830s and 1840s DeBaptiste was an active conductor in Madison,Indiana. Located along the Ohio River across from Kentucky,a slave state,this town was a destination for refugee slaves seeking escape from slavery.
The Cleveland,Akron and Columbus Railroad was a railroad company in the U.S. state of Ohio. It connected its namesake cities and served as a vital link for later parent Pennsylvania Railroad to connect Cleveland and Columbus,Ohio.
James Hill was a Republican politician and government official in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives,including as Sergeant at Arms and as Speaker,and was Secretary of State of Mississippi during the Reconstruction era. He served as Secretary of State of Mississippi from January 4,1874,until January 1878. He was the last African American to hold statewide office in Mississippi. He was one of several African Americans who served as Mississippi Secretary of State during the Reconstruction era.
Henry Musgrove was a politician in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era. He served as the Mississippi state auditor from 1869 until 1874,and as the Secretary of State of Mississippi in 1869. He ran on the Republican ticket with officials including James L. Alcorn who was elected governor. He moved to Mississippi in 1866 from Indiana.
Chester Conlan Carter is an American film,stage and television actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the medic "Doc" in the American drama television series Combat!,for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Franklin Guest Smith was a career officer in the United States Army. A Union Army veteran of the American Civil War,Smith also served in the American Indian Wars and the Spanish–American War,and attained the rank of brigadier general.
John Prentiss Carter was an American politician. He served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature and was the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1904 to 1908.
William Bryden was a career officer in the United States Army. A veteran of the Philippine–American War,Pancho Villa Expedition,World War I,and World War II,he attained the rank of major general and was three-time recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Medal. Bryden was best known for his assignment to several senior command positions,including the 15th Field Artillery Brigade (1918),9th Field Artillery Brigade (1918–1919),16th Infantry Brigade and Fort George G. Meade (1937–1938),13th Field Artillery Brigade and Fort Bragg (1938–1940),Deputy Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1940–1942),Fourth Corps Area (1942),Fourth Service Command (1942–1944),and president of the Secretary of War´s Separation Board (1944–1946).
