Ross Winans, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ross Winans

Inventor, locomotive builder

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1796

Date of Death: 11-Apr-1877

Profession: politician, inventor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ross Winans (1796–1877) was an American inventor, mechanic, and builder of locomotives and railroad machinery.
He is also noted for design of pioneering cigar-hulled ships.
Winans, one of the United States' first multi-millionaires, was involved in national and state politics, a southern-sympathizer and was a vehement "states' rights" advocate.
His outspoken anti-federal stance as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, the lower chamber of the General Assembly, (state legislature) led to his temporary arrest on board a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train returning from an early session of the legislature held in the western Maryland town of Frederick to avoid the Union Army-occupied state capital of Annapolis in April–May, 1861, to consider the possibilities of state secession, during the early decisive period of the American Civil War.
Winans was related to James McNeill Whistler through marriage (Whistler's brother George married Winans' daughter Julia).