Mark Hopkins

one of four principal investors in the Central Pacific Railroad

1813 CE to 1878 CE

Mark Hopkins (September 1, 1813 – March 29, 1878) is one of four principal investors who agree to fund Theodore D. Judah's idea of building a railway over the Sierra Nevada from Sacramento, CA to Promontory, Utah.

They form the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington in 1861.

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