Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-04-24

The other two, the Second and Eleventh
Mississippi, had not been engagedin any
OF the battles of the army since Ante
tam. The Second Mississippi, which
had suffered most severely in the battles
IN which it had taken part, had $50 men
in the line at Gettysburg.
CALIFORNIA; RAILROAD KING.
Sketch of the Career of the Vanderbilt
Of the Pacific Slope.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The news OF the death of Mark Hop
kins came upon the community yester-
day with painful suddeness. It was
known to many that Mr. Hopkins was
not in the best of health and that he
had taken q Southern trip under medi-
cal advice, but he was not considered
in critical condition. A man whose
life had been one of extraordinary &C
tivity, it was only the few close intimacy
with him who had come to look upon
him Of late as an invalid Sciatica was
the malady from which he suffered,
when, In obedience to his physicians
Instructions, he left the city last Thurs
day for the warm and dry region of the
Colorado; but whatever the medical
term for the disease which in his sixty
fourth year has taken him from them.
his friends know that he is victim to
overwork. With Mark Hopkins, what
ever was worth doing was worth doing
we'll. His application TO business was
remarkable for it's intensity. His hours
of labor, begun in the carly morning,
were even up to recent years continued
until late into the night No toll was
too severe for him. "He liked to work
more than the LATEST man likes to loaf"
says one of his nephews. His working
hours were his hours OF recreation.
Labor was to Mark Hopkins not curse
but a perpetual delight; and so he
wore himself out. The following dis
patch tells the sad story:
YUMA, March %, 1S7S.-To Leland
Stanford and Charles Crocker:-Mr
Hopkins died at $50 this morning. He
had suffered considerably at intervals,
from his rheumatic pains, since his ar
rival here Monday evening, but for the
last thirty-six hours bad been comfort
ably free from pain, and had rested
better than previously. No alarming
symptoms were manifested until within
few moments of his death. He passed
away in sleep, with no apparent
pain Or struggle. S. S. MONTAGUE"
LIFE OF THE DECEASED.
Mr. Hopkins was pioneer citizen.
He came to the State in 1849, and may
be said never to have left it. He has
Fdied one of our richest men, and with
character fol- integrity and uprightness
that excels his reputation as million
aire. He was born in Jefferson City
New York, September 1, 1873 He re-
ceived an ordinary school education,
and early In life studied law in his broth
er's office in New York. Subsequently
he engaged in mercantile business in
New York On the % of January, 1S49.
he sailed from New York for San Fran
cisco on the ship Pacific, and arrived in
this harbor August 5, of the same year.
There came with him in the same ship
Aurthnr M Ebbetts, DR.. Stillman, Maj.
Durham. Mr.. Caswell AMI Mr.. Masten.
Soon after his arrival in the State, Mr..
Hopkins engaged in freighting to the
mining regions, taking Sacramento as
the starting point. In 1850 he entered
into partnership, in the grocery bust
ness, in Sacramento, with E. III. Miller,
and subsequently became one of the
members of the hardware firm of Hun
tington & Hopkins AS merchant Mr..
Hopkins was very successful, and the
business with which he was connected
fourished into one of great magnitude.
When the project of building an over
land railroad was taken up, Mr.. Hop
kins threw himself unreservedly into the
enterprise, and with the Central Pacific
railroad he remained identified up to
his DEATH He was treasurer of the
campaany. His loss is seriously felt
by his co-workcrs on the directorate
A MARVELLOUS LETTER-WRITER.
Gen. David D. Cotton speaks very
highly of his deceased associate, and
evidently admired his business sagacity.
He describes him as man of few
words, austere, perhaps, and reserved
among strangers, but kind and gener-
Gus to those connected with him. His
energy was remarkable and his judy
ment profound. 'He was the best let
ter-writer." said Mr.. Cotton, +" that I
ever knew. He could say more on
page of note paper than Croker and I
could on half a dozen pages of foolscap.
He was terse, direct, vigorous and ele-
giant, and whenever any of the common
business demanded letter, we always
used to make him write it. He was a
man who had to be known to be appre-
ciated, and as he was an indefatigable
worker, he was very little known to the
world, and by it consequently not fully
appreciated. Within the last three or
four years he was worA to say that the
great mistake Of his life was the lack of
recreation"
MIR. HOPKINS PIONEER VOYAGE.
DIR. Stillman, in his book, Seeking
the Golden Fleece" descriptive Of life
on the ship Pacific and subsequent
events in California, has but little to say
about his fellow passenger, Mr.. Hop
kins. Mark" as he was Familiarity