Jacob Nash Victor
Jacob Nash Victor | |
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| Born | April 2, 1835 |
| Died | October 3, 1907(aged 72) |
| Known for | construction ofCalifornia Southern Railroad |
Jacob Nash Victor(April 2, 1835 inSandusky County, Ohio– October 3, 1907 inSan Bernardino, California),[1]son of Henry Clay Victor and Gertrude Nash, was acivil engineerwho worked as General Manager of theCalifornia Southern Railroad,asubsidiaryofAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.Victor oversaw the construction in the early 1880s of the California Southern betweenColtonandBarstow, California,including the section that is now one of the busiest rail freight routes in theUnited States,Cajon Pass.
The city ofVictorville, California,is named in his honor.[2]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^LeClaire, Barbara (March 26, 2009)."Jacob Nash Victor (1835-1907)".Find-A-Grave.RetrievedFebruary 2,2014.
- ^City of Victorville, California (March 1, 2007)."Victorville City History".Archived fromthe originalon September 28, 2007.Retrieved2007-10-11.
References[edit]
- Serpico, Philip C. (1988).Santa Fé Route to the Pacific.Palmdale, California: Omni Publications. pp. 18–24.ISBN0-88418-000-X.
- Waters, Leslie L. (1950).Steel Trails to Santa Fe.Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 131–133.
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