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George Francis Train

George Francis Train

George Francis Train was an American businessman who organized the clipper ship line that sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco; he also was an organizer of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier in the United States in 1864 to construct the eastern portion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and a horse tramway company in England while there during the American Civil War.

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My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year

George Francis Train