Left New York on the SS Northern Light, April 6, 1854;
Arrived on the SS Pacific, May 4, 1854
Theodore D. Judah arrived with his wife, child and servant. Traveling
with them were Miss H. B. Judah and Mrs. M.J. Judah.
The promoters of
the Sacramento Valley Rail Road brought Theodore D. Judah to California
from New York. The SVRR finished, he surveyed a route over the Sierra
Nevada and founded the Central Pacific Railroad Company with "The Big Four".
Judah organized
the railroad and earned the title "Father of the Transcontinental,"
but he died November 2 1863, so he never saw the beginnings of the laying
of the track. Judah Street in San Francisco's Sunset District was named
after Theodore D. Judah.
19th-Century American Railroad Executives: James Jerome Hill, William Butler Ogden, Theodore Judah, Richard W. Thompson, Cornelius Vanderbilt
Chapters: James Jerome Hill, William Butler Ogden, Theodore Judah, Richard W. Thompson, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Leland Stanford, Nathaniel Prentice Banks, John Murray Forbes, Franklin B. Gowen, Henry Huttleston Rogers, William Nelson Page, Jay Gould, David Leavitt, William Mahone, Joseph Smith Harris, James Guthrie, Worthy S. Streator, Collis Potter Huntington, John Wheeler Leavitt, Russell A. Alger, Isaac R. Trimble, Henry Morrison Flagler, William Jackson Palmer, Alfred Pleasonton . . .
Rails from the West; a biography of Theodore D. Judah(Details corrected on October 8, 2005 with notes from Norman E. Tutorow, Ph.D., author of The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford, Arthur H. Clark Co., 2004, Spokane.)