Fred T. Perris
Politician, Organization founder
1837 – 1916
Who was Fred T. Perris?
Fred Thomas Perris was Chief Engineer of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, who oversaw the construction of the last leg of the 2nd Transcontinental Railroad from Barstow, California through El Cajon Pass and down to San Bernardino and Los Angeles, a task that employed six thousand laborers, and is still in use by BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad He also laid, track from Riverside, California to San Diego, California laying out a series to town sites along the track, one of which, Perris, California was named in his honor. The city of Perris, California, a station on the California Southern Railroad, was named in his honor.
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- Born
- Jan 2, 1837
Gloucester - Also known as
- Fred Perris
- Fred Thomas Perris
- Frederick Thomas Perris
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Employment
- Chief engineer, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
- Chief engineer, California Southern Railroad
- Lived in
- Gloucester
(1837 - 1849) - San Bernardino
(1853 - 1857) - Salt Lake City
- San Bernardino
(1874 - 1916)
- Gloucester
- Died
- May 12, 1916
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on July 23, 2013
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