March 23 – Henry C. Lord, president of Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad in the 1850s, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1868–1869, founding president of Indianapolis Belt Railroad in 1873 (b. 1824).
May deaths
May 17 – George Muirson Totten, chief construction engineer for the Panama Railway (b. 1808).
September deaths
September 4 – Wilhelm Engerth, German steam locomotive designer (b. 1814).