July

• July 29 - Daniel Drew
  Daniel Drew
  -Biography:He was born in Carmel, New York.Drew was poorly educated. His father died when Daniel was fifteen years old. Drew enlisted and drilled, but because he enlisted too late, never fought in the War of 1812. After the war, he started a successful cattle-driving business. In 1823, he married...
  
  , board member and financier of the Erie Railroad
  Erie Railroad
  The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, originally connecting New York City with Lake Erie...
  
   (d. 1879).

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• Asa Whitney
  Asa Whitney
  Asa Whitney was an American merchant and great railroad promoter. Whitney lived in New Rochelle, New York, just to the north of New York City where he was a highly successful dry-goods merchant....
  
  , one of the first backers of an American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   Transcontinental Railway.