TRAIN, George Francis, author, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 24 March, 1829. He is a son of Enoch Train. He engaged in business in Boston for several years and then went to Australia in 1853, where he founded the house of Caldwell, Train, and Co. He travelled extensively, went to England, and made vigorous efforts to introduce street-railways into Birkenhead and London in 1859, but met with violent opposition and was unsuccessful. He lectured in Great Britain and Ireland before large audiences, especially in the latter country, and, although his manner and language were singular, his sarcasms on English society were often incisive and eloquent. He returned to the United States in 1862, and since that time has been widely known on account of his eccentricity. He has written "An American Merchant in Europe, Asia, and Australia" (New York, 1857).; "Young America Abroad" (1857) ; "Young America in Wall Street" (1858); "Spread-Eagleism" (1859 ; London, 1860)" "Every Man his own Autocrat," chiefly biographical (1859); "Young America on Slavery" (1860); "Observations on Street-Railways" (Liverpool, 1860); "George Francis Train, Unionist, on Thomas Colley Grattan, Secessionist" (London, 1861); " Union Speeches delivered in England during the Present American War" (Philadelphia and London, 4 vols., 1862); "Downfall of England" (1865) ; "Irish Independency" (1865) ; and "Championship of Women" (Leavenworth, Kansas, 1868).