Background
Train, George Francis was born on March 24, 1829 in in Boston. Son of Oliver and Maria (Pickering) Train.
Train, George Francis was born on March 24, 1829 in in Boston. Son of Oliver and Maria (Pickering) Train.
Orphaned, New Orleans, 1833, father, mother and three sisters dying of yellow fever. Went North alone, at 4, to grandmother at Waltham, Massachusetts. Attended village school.
Successively farmer boy, grocer boy, shipping clerk, partner at 20. Established branch firm in Liverpool, 1850.
Colonel G. T. M. Davis, October 5, 1851 (died 1879). Established Train & Company, shipping agts., Melbourne, Australia, 1853. Started 1st clippers to California (1849).
Promoted building Atlantic and Great Western R.R., 400 miles (1858). 1st st. rys. in Europe (1860-1862), Asia and Australia. Union Pacific Railway (1864-1869).
Built Train Villa, Newport, 1868. Made independent race for President United States, 1872. Organized the French Commune at Marseilles, October 1870.
Lived “Mills Palace,” since 1898. Made 4 trips around world, last 3 in 80, 67½ and 60 days (holding record). Author: An American Merchant in Europe, Asia and Australia.
Young America Abroad, 1857. Young America in Wall Street, 1858. Spread-Eagleism, 1858.
Downfall of England, 1862. Irish Independence, 1861. Championship of Women, 1867.
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, 1902.
Married Wilhelmina Wilkinson, d.