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About Thomas Leiper
Thomas Leiper was a Scottish American businessman, banker and politician who owned a successful tobacco exportation business as well as several mills and stone quarries. He served as a lieutenant in the Philadelphia City Troop during the American Revolutionary War. He built one of the first railways in America and the first in Pennsylvania. The Leiper Railroad was a three-quarter-mile long track on his property in Nether Providence Township, Pennsylvania, used to ship quarry stone to market with animal-powered carts.
Everything about Thomas Leiper →- Occupation
- civil engineer, engineer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 15, 1745
- Died
- July 6, 1825