Pullman, GEORGE MORTIMER

Pullman, GEORGE MORTIMER, the inventor of the well-known 'cars,' was born in New York state in 1831, engaged in the business of moving and raising buildings, and as early as 1859 made his first sleeping-cars, and in 1863 the first on the model with which his name is now associated (see RAILWAYS). The Pullman Palace-car Company was formed in 1867, under his presidency, and now works nearly 1500 cars. In 1880 he founded an industrial town near Chicago, by which it has since been absorbed. On the 19th of October 1897 he dropped down dead in the streets of Chicago.