Genealogy - Mark Hopkins estate
From: "Larr Mann" sonlarr@hotmail.com
I am doing genealogy research and was trying to found out if any one might be able to tell me if there was any letters that have to do with re-opening the Mark Hopkins estate. The time period would be around 1934. The letters that I am refering to might be sent from a Judge James Henry Longden or his wife Herrieatta Longden. I am attaching some information that might help you better understand what I am refering to. ...
—Larry Hudson
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 9:46 PM
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From: "Chris Graves" caliron@cwnet.com
This has been discussed for many many years, with no resolution. Good Luck!
—gjg
From: kylewyatt@aol.com
The most systematic presentation I've seen so far is at [the Mark HOPKINS & Mary Frances SHERWOOD page].
The best explination I've heard suggests that there were two Mark Hopkins in California; one from New York and one from NorthCarolina/Tennessee.
The railroad Mark Hopkins was clearly very involved in early Republican Party politics in California – as a quick look at his associates in the Central Pacific will show. This seems less likely for a man from the South. Further all of the principal Central Pacific founders came to California from upstate New York (although Huntington was born in Connetecut). Again, it seems unlikely that a Southerner would have fit into this group. And we know that Mark Hopkins returned from California to marry his first cousin in New York in 1855 or so – she also being from New York.
My suggestion would be to look through the 1850 and 1860 manuscript census reports to find a Mark Hopkins that is not from New York.
—Kyle
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