Mark Hopkins

  • American

Mark Hopkins was one of four major investors of the Central Pacific Railroad that was built from Sacramento, California, through the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Promontory, Utah. Called Uncle Mark by the other three of the Big Four, Hopkins was an abolitionist and an organizer of the Republican Party in California who was known to be thrifty, unpretentious, a recluse and a vegetarian. - AsNotedIn

Notable Position Organization From To
Founder Huntington and Hopkins Company 1855 1878
Founder, Financier Central Pacific Railroad 1862
Founder Pacific Union Express Company 1868 1869

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1813/09/01 Anastasia Lukens Kellogg, the wife and first cousin of Mark Hopkins, gives birth to a son, Mark Hopkins, in Henderson, New York. Born Henderson, NY New York
1849/00/00 Mark Hopkins arrives in San Francisco with his brother, Moses, and a New York friend, Edwin H Miller Jr. Life
1850/06/00 Edwin H Miller Jr and Mark Hopkins open a store at 160 J St as wholesale merchants where they will remain until burned out by the 2 November 1852 fire. Work Old Sacramento Sacramento
1852/12/00 Immediately after the November fire, the firm of Hopkins and Miller put up a 2-story brick building at 50 K Street as wholesale merchants. Moses Hopkins clerks for the firm. Work Big Four House, Sacramento Sacramento
1854/00/00 Hopkins and Miller is dissolved, Hopkins returning for a visit to New York, and Miller continuing business as E H Miller and Co at the 50 K Street address to which he retains ownership. Work
1854/09/22 Mary Frances Sherwood marries her first cousin, Mark Hopkins, in New York City. The groom is almost twice as old as his bride. Groom Marriage of Mary Frances Sherwood and Mark Hopkins
1855/05/01 Collis Huntington and Mark Hopkins form a mercantile partnership. Work Big Four House, Sacramento Sacramento
1868/05/00 H D Bacon, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, Darius Ogden Mills and Lloyd Tevis establish the Pacific Union Express Company and begin operating between Reno and Virginia City, Nevada. Founder
1873/00/00 A simple rectangular log cabin with steeply pitched roof is built for Mark Hopkins. Home Summit Soda Springs Soda Springs, CA
1878/03/25 Mark Hopkins suffers considerably at intervals from rheumatic pains since his arrival Monday evening in Yuma, Arizona, by private railcar. Health
1878/03/29 Mark Hopkins dies in his sleep with no apparent pain or struggle aboard his private rail car in Yuma, AZ. Over the last 36 hours he had been comfortably free from pain. No alarming symptoms were manifest until within a few moments of his death. Died Yuma, AZ Arizona
1880/00/00 Mark Hopkins is buried in the Old City Cemetery in Sacramento, California. In Memoriam Sacramento Historic City Cemetery Sacramento
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