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Lewis Kingman, born in North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1845 and died in Mexico City in 1912, was a civil engineer who pioneered railroad location and construction in the western United States and Mexico. During 1886-87 he supervised the construction of 1353 miles of railroad. During the construction of the railroad through this area, he established the railroad camp where the town of Kingman now stands.
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Kingman, Arizona · United States
