1857 Feb 21 Original New York Tribune - Death of W.C. Redfield FL4

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1857 Feb 21 Original New York Tribune - Death of W.C. Redfield FL4

DEATH oF W. C. REDFILD.-William C. Red-field died at his residence in this oity on Thurs-day, at the age of 68. Hig name has long been familiar in the annals of science, especially in the di vision of meteorology. Mr. Redfield was born at Mid-dletown, Ct. As early as 1822 he was engaged id an attempt at steam navigation on the Connectiout, and soon after was one of a company that established a line of boats from Hartford to New-York. In 1825 he came to this city, and at once engaged in steamboating on the Hudson. In 1828 he pablished a paper on a
Route of a Great Western Railway, to
connect
New-York with Lake Erie and the great rivers of the Western States. Nearly thirty years afterward the iron horse crossed the Mississippi at Rock Island, the precise place proposed in Mr. R.'s pamphlet. He was an early and efficient promoter of railroads on a smaller icale, along the Hudson