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October1885

Famous People Who Died in October 1885

Doc Durant (1820-1885)

Oct 5 American financier and railroad promoter (Transcontinental Railroad-Union Pacific), dies at 65

Doc Durant

Oct 6 Thomas Talbot, American politician, 31st Governor of Massachusetts, dies at 67
Oct 10 John McCloskey, 1st American cardinal and Archbishop of New York, dies at 75
Oct 23 Charles S. West, American jurist and politician, dies at 56

George McClellan (1826-1885)

Oct 29 American Major General (Union Army), dies of a heart attack at 58

George McClellan

Oct 29 James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda
Oct 30 Gustav Merkel, German organist (Dresden Cathedral, 1864-85), composer, and pedagogue (Dresden Conservatory), dies at 57

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