Edward F. Searles, whose wife owned a quarter stake in the Central Pacific Railroad

"Gate House reopens tonight" by Douglas Moser, © Eagle-Tribune, June 23, 2012. (News Article)

" ... Methuen [Massachusetts] started out essentially as an agricultural town, and the boom of the Industrial Age brought several millionaire families into town ... Edward F. Searles, whose wife [widow of Mark Hopkins] owned a quarter stake in the Central Pacific Railroad, built a mansion overlooking the Merrimack River and Lawrence. ... " [More]

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