Famous People Who Died in October 1885

Oct 5 Doc Durant [Thomas C. Durant], American financier and railroad promoter (Transcontinental Railroad-Union Pacific), dies at 65

Oct 6 Thomas Talbot, American politician, 31st Governor of Massachusetts, dies at 67
Oct 10 John McCloskey, 1st American cardinal and Archbishop of New York, dies at 75
Oct 23 Charles S. West, American jurist and politician, dies at 56