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Updated: June 24, 2025
One June day in 1861, Leland Stanford, a young lawyer, who was at that time Sacramento's chief grocer, Mark Hopkins and Collis P. Huntington, hardware merchants, and Charles Crocker, proprietor of the leading dry-goods store, met and organized the Central Pacific Railroad Company, with Stanford as president, Huntington as vice-president, Hopkins as treasurer, Judah as engineer, and Crocker as one of the directors.
As has been shown by Hopkins, and more recently by Mr. Davison, an exterior crust in such a condition must eventually result in being under a state of horizontal thrust towards the exterior and of tension towards the interior surface.
Forbes seemed to think the Hopkins people were trying to get you into trouble. Of course it would have caused trouble had these men voted." "Of course, Mr. Burke. I'm much obliged to Mr. Forbes for warning me." "You'll find the next Representative a very agreeable man to get along with, Mr. Marshall. Good day, sir." "Good day, Mr. Burke." When the detective had gone Mr.
Those eyes, full of pain at first, changed instantly to frank forgiveness, and, bowing low, I repeated my plea for pardon for my clumsy carelessness, but was absolved so absolutely and completely, and dismissed so naturally, that I felt relieved. I sauntered up to Hopkins' office. "Hopkins," said I, "I just met your wife." "You did?" "Yes, and I stepped on her foot and hurt her badly, I know."
Ellis, who had been married, did not jump at conclusions regarding the heart of man so rapidly as her spinster friend. She preferred to talk of the bicycle. Nor did Miss Hopkins refuse the subject. To her at this moment the most important object on the globe was the shining machine which she would allow no hand but hers to oil and dust. Both Mrs.
William Stanley's name, as one of the crew of the Jefferson, was next produced; this part of the testimony came through our acquaintance, Mr. Hopkins, who had been the owner of the Jefferson. Then came proofs of the many efforts made by the executors, to obtain accounts of Mr.
The primaries for the nomination are not to be held for two weeks, and the Republican candidates seem shy about coming forward." "Didn't you say the district was Republican?" "Yes; but since Hopkins defeated them last term they seem to be terrified, and no one likes to offer himself as a possible sacrifice." "That feeling will probably elect Mr. Hopkins," declared Kenneth, with conviction.
It was, taken altogether, a daring play, and succeeded as much from that reason as anything else. In football the unexpected counts most, and Harmony was certainly caught napping. Winters made his difficult pass as swift and sure as a rifleshot into Hopkins' arms. In a moment the Harmony backs downed him, but the tackle came too late to save the score.
If it fails to interest the reader who ventures upon it, it may find a place on an unfrequented bookshelf in common with other "medicated novels." Perhaps I have been too hard with Gifted Hopkins and the tribe of rhymesters to which he belongs.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. H.J. Eckenrode's The Political History of Virginia during Reconstruction, 1904. Langston, John M. From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capital; or, The First and Only Negro Representative in Congress from The Old Dominion.
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