Early Life and Education
Theodore Judah was born in 1826 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of an Episcopal clergyman. After his family moved to Troy, New York, Judah studied engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
On May 10, 1847 at age 21, Judah married Anne Pierce. Twenty-two years later, to the day, some six years after Judah's death, the "golden spike" was driven, completing the First Transcontinental Railroad.
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