[1] He was born in the town of Barnard, Vermont, on March 31, 1804, and was a son of Hathaway and Rachel Dean Richmond.

He became a director in the Utica and Buffalo Railroad Company and with the completion of the direct line to Batavia, he took up his residence there.

In the summer of 1866, after attending the State convention at Saratoga, he accompanied Samuel J. Tilden on a trip to Washington and Philadelphia.

On the leg of the journey from Albany to Buffalo the same engine that brought Lincoln to his inauguration pulled his funeral train.

[4] The freighter itself became famous when it sank in Lake Erie near the town of Dunkirk, New York, in the early morning of October 14, 1893.