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Eugene V. Debs

1854 – Kingston Locomotive Works, the predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company, completes construction of its first steam locomotive.
1893 – Brayton Ives succeeds Thomas Fletcher Oakes as president of Northern Pacific Railway.[1]
1913 – The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's tracks reach Casper, Wyoming, making Casper the busiest rail junction in Wyoming.
1926 – Eugene V. Debs (pictured), American labor leader, founding member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and founder of the American Railway Union who was arrested during the Pullman strike in Chicago, dies (b. 1855).

References

Busbey, T. Addison, ed. (1896). The Biographical Directory of Railway Officials of America, Edition of 1896. Chicago, Illinois: Railway Age and Northwestern Railroader. p. 244.

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