 George Chorpenning

George W. Chorpenning Jr. (sometimes spelled 'Chorpening')(1 June 1820 - 3 April 1894) was a pioneer in the transportation of mail, freight, and passengers through the arid and undeveloped western regions of nineteenth-century United States.His efforts in the 1850s were vital to the integration of the then-new state of California with the established government and economy east of the Mississippi River.