11/02/1863 AD died
Judah dies of yellow fever: He contracted the disease in Panama on a voyage with his wife to New York City, apparently becoming infected during their land passage across the Isthmus of Panama.
He was traveling to New York to seek alternative financing to buy out the major investors. Anna took his body back to Greenfield, MA, where he was buried in the Pierce family plot in the Federal Street Cemetery.
He died before his dream of a transcontinental railroad could be completed. Within days of Judah's death, the CPRR's first locomotive, Gov. Stanford, made a trial run over the new railroad's first 500 feet of track in Sacramento, CA.
The CPRR named one of its steam locomotives (CP No. 4) after him. Judah crossed paths with the 19-ton locomotive bearing his name while on his way to New York.
Lattitude: 40.7128° N
Longitude: 74.006° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
