Richmond, Dean
merchant, railroad president, was born March 31, 1804, in Barnard, Vt. He moved to Buffalo in 1842, and after the consolidation of the railroads forming the New York Central he moved to Batavia, N. Y. He was first vice-president of the company; was elected its president in 1864, and was the first railroad man to advocate the laying of steel rails. He died Aug. 27, 1866, in New York city.
RICHMOND, MRS. EUPHEMIA JOHN- SON (GUERNSEY), author, was born in 1825 in New York. She is a writer of Upton, N. Y., and the author of Hope Raymond; Two Paths; The McAllisters, a temperance tale; The Jewelled Serpent; The Fatal Dower; and Anna Maynard, the King's Daughter.