Mark Hopkins Jr.
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Mark Hopkins (September 1, 1813 – March 29, 1878) was an American railroad executive.
He was one of four major investors who financed Theodore D. Judah's dream of building a railroad across the Sierra Nevada from Sacramento, California, to Promontory, Utah.
They co-founded the Central Pacific Railroad in 1861 with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington.
Early years and family life
Hopkins was born in Henderson, Jefferson County, New York, to Mark Hopkins and Anastasia Lukens Kellogg, who were first cousins. He was never identified as "Junior" because his father died when he was a boy. In 1824, the family moved to St. Clair, Michigan. Mark Hopkins (1779-1828), his father, was born in Henderson, NY, and then in St. Clair, Michigan, where he was also Judge of Probate.
In 1828, the elder Hopkins died, and his son went from school to work as a clerk. He started by studying law with his brother Henry in 1837, but then moved into several business ventures. He was a partner in "Hopkins and Hughes," before becoming a bookkeeper and later boss of "James Rowland and Company."
Hopkins married Mary Frances Sherwood, his first cousin, in New York City, on September 22, 1854. Despite the fact that his ancestors were Congregationalists, the wedding took place at a Presbyterian Church. Mary and Mark Hopkins had no children of their own. Timothy Nolan, the adult son of her housekeeper who took the Hopkins name and was given a Union Pacific Railroad administrative job, was adopted by Mary. Despite Hopkins' thriftiness, his wife managed to convince him to build an ornate mansion on the roof of Nob Hill in San Francisco, California, near to other Central Pacific pioneers' mansions. In 1875, the first brick building was completed. The architects were a prominent San Francisco firm, and the project manager, William Wallace Barbour Sheldon, was a member of the Southern Pacific Improvement Company.