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History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1883

Page 338

   FRANKLIN HOPKINS, one of the earliest pioneers of Lake
 Superior and an early mining agent, was born in Trenton,
 Oneida Co., N.Y., November 29, 1817.  He moved to Lower
 Michigan in 1836, learned the carpenter's trade, and came
 to Lake Superior in 1845.  He located at the North American
 Mine, Keweenaw County, as mining carpenter; remained with
 that company two years.  Then went below to Lower Michigan.
 In 1848, he was appointed carpenter to the Methodist Indian
 Mission at L'Anse.  He made the trip to L'Anse on foot, and
 entered upon the discharge of his duties; the position not
 proving to his liking, he only served fifteen months; he
 then returned to the copper region, and engaged as surface
 foreman of the old Northwest Mine, now the Conglomerate,
 and continued at that mine for six years.  Next served as
 agent of the Central Mine two years.  He then served two
 years as agent of the Isle Royale Mine at Houghton.  He
 has also had charge of the Pontiac Mine a short time.  He
 then kept the Phoenix House at Eagle River two years during
 the liveliest business times of Eagle River.  During that
 time, he lost his wife and one child on the wrecked steamer
 Lady Elgin, September 8, 1860.  He then moved to Eagle
 Harbor, and has since been connected with the dock and
 warehouse business.

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