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About Sherman Day
Sherman Day was an American politician and a civil and mining engineer in California. He helped organize the progenitor of the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad and served as a member of the California Senate from 1854 to 1855. He discovered, surveyed, and designed the wagon road over the Sierra Nevada in 1856 that the Pony Express used in 1860. He was one of the founders of the College of California and the son of president of Yale University, Jeremiah Day. He served as the U.S. Surveyor General of California from 1868 to 1871.
Everything about Sherman Day →- Occupation
- historian, politician
- Position held
- member of the State Senate of California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1806
- Died
- 1884