1.  LDS.  Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:  IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).

Ella Gertrude HOPKINS Spouse: Richard Pickering JOY Marriage: 1 Jan 1896, St. Clair, Michigan Source: [patron submission]

2.  Harold Clarke Durrell.  1936.  "Memoirs of Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 90(Jan): 67-78.

67 - RICHARD PICKERING JOY, of Detroit and Grosse Pointe, Mich., elected a Colonial member 4 March 1930, was born in Detroit 25 January 1870, the son of Hon. James Frederick and Mary (Bourne) Joy, and died in Detroit 15 December 1930. He traced his descent from Thomas1 Joy, house carpenter, millwright, architect, a resident of Boston as early as 20 February 1636/7, who moved to Hingham, Mass., in 1648, following political differences with the Winthrop government, owner of a sawmill, a member in 1658 of the Boston Artillery company, builder in 1657-58 of the house in the market place in Boston, a freeman in 1665, in later life prominent in the affairs of both Boston and Hingham, where he died 21 October 1678, whose wife was Joan Gallop, daughter of Capt. John and Christobel Gallop, through Samuel,2 1639/40-1671, of Boston and Hingham, a member in 1670 of the Boston Artillery Company, who married Ann Pitts, Samuel3 of Salisbury, Mass., ship calker, farmer born in 1670, who married Marah Eastman, Samuel4 of Oyster River (later Durham), N.H., a member of the miltia in 1740, born in 1706, drowned about 1752 at the ferry over Exeter River, whose wife was Mary Burley, Jacob,5 1749-1805, of Durham and Madbury, N.H., whose first wife was Hannah Cram, James,6 1778-1857, of Durham, blacksmith, later of Pittsfield, N.H., where he owned a scyth factory and a cotton mill, a settler in 1838 in Morgan County, Ill., and in later life a resident of Plymouth, N.H., and Groton, Mass., who married Sarah Pickering, and Hon. James Frederick,7 his father, A.B. (Dartmouth, 1833), A.M. (ib., 1836), LL.B. (Harvard, 1836), LL.D. (Dartmouth, 1869, Iowa, 1869, University of Michigan, 1887), tutor at Dartmouth College, 1874-5, delegate to the Republican National Convention at Dartmouth College, 1874-5, delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880, lawyer at Detroit, part owner of the railway systems of Michigan, developer of railroads in the Middle West, president of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Company, and the Wabash Railroad Company, builder of the bridge across the Missouri at Kansas City and of the Union Depot at Detroit, a member of the State Legislature, who was born at Durham 2 December 1810, married secondly, 12 December 1860, Mary Bourne (born at Hartford, Conn., 10 September 1832, died in Paris, France, 26 July 1890, daughter of Shearjashub and Ardelia (Alger) Bourne), and died in Detroit 24 September 1896. He attended the public schools and entered Phillip's Exeter Academy, where he was graduated in 1890. He began work in the engineering department of Fort Street Union Depot Company, but soon resigned to accept a position in a bank. Up to his retirement from active business just before his death he had been president of the National Bank of Commerce from 1 Jun 1907, the Detroit Union Railroad Depot and Station Comapny, and the LaSalle County Carbon Coal Company, vice president of the Detroit Copper and Brass Rolling Mills,

68 and the Union Commerce Corporation, treasurer of the Packard Motor Car Company, and a director of the Detroit Trust Company and the Grace Harbor Lumber Company. He also served as an alderman of the City of Detroit, 1904-1905, and Comptroller of the City of Detroit, 1901-07. Among his clubs were the Detroit and the Country Clubs.  He was a Republican and a Presbyterian. Besides his home in Detroit he had an estate at Grosse Pointe. He married first, 1 January 1896, Ellen Gertrude Hopkins, who was born in Chicago 27 April 1874 and died in Detroit 10 April 1897, daughter of Mark and Permelia Hewins (Morgan) Hopkins; and secondly, in Detroit, 8 September 1908, Mary Moore, daughter of William Van and Jane (Andrews) Moore, who survives him as do four children, Ella Hopkins Joy, a daughter by his first wife, and Richard Pickering Joy, William Moore Joy, and Thomas Bourne Joy, children by his second wife.

The given name of Richard Pickering JOY's first wife was Ella, not Ellen.  The maiden name of Mark HOPKINS's wife, Permelia, was HEWINS, not MORGAN.  Permelia had married a Mr. MORGAN before her marriage to Mark HOPKINS.

3.  Frederick Adams Virkus, ed.  1933.  The Compendium of American Genealogy.  Institute of American Genealogy, Chicago (repub. 1968 by Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore; Broderbund CD-200).  On p. 661

JOY, Richard Pickering, b Detroit, Mich., Jan. 25, 1870. 8--Thomas Joy (qv); 7--Samuel (1639-71), mem. A. and H.A. Co., m 1668, Ann (bap. 1644-1698), dau. Edward Pitts; 6--Samuel (1670-ca. 1746), m Marah Eastman (d in 1728); 5--Samuel (1706-ca. 1752), settled at Oyster River (Durham), N.H., m Mary (1715-ca. 1805), dau. of Capt. John Burley; 4--Jacob (1749-1805), Durham, m 1st, 1775, Hannah Cram (1755-92); 3--James (1778-1857), m 1802, Sarah Gee Pickering (des. John Pickering, Portsmouth, N.H., 1633). 2--Son of James Frederick Joy, LL.D. (1810-96), A.B., Dartmouth, '33, LL.B., Harvard, 1836, lawyer, they ry. builder and operator, pres. C., B. & Q., M.C., Wabash, and other rys., m in 1841, Martha Alger (d 1850); m 2d, 1860, Mary Bourne (1832-90); for issue and Bourne line see Henry Bourne Joy. M Jan. 1, 1896, Ella Gertrude Hopkins (1874-Apr. 10, 1897); dau. of Mark Hopkins, of St. Clair, Mich.; issue: 1--Ella Hopkins, b Detroit, Apr. 9, 1897. M 2d, Sept. 9, 1908, Mary Moore, b Detroit, July 14, 1887; sister of William Van Husan Moore (qv for genealogy); issue: 1--Richard Pickering, Jr., b Detroit, June 25, 1909; 2--William Moore, b. Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., Dec. 31, 1912; 3--Thomas Bourne, b at Grosse Pointe Farms, Sept. 15, 1918. Grad. Phillips Andover Acad., '90. Pres. Nat. Bank of Commerce, Detroit. Controller of Detroit, 1906-07 (see Who's Who in America). Residence: Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.

4.  Thomas William Herringshaw.  1902.  Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.  American Publ. Assn., Chicago, IL (online at Ancestry.com).  On p. 542:

JOY, JAMES F., lawyer, railroad president, was born Dec. 2, 1810, in Durham, N.H.  In 1846 he entered the railway service as attorney and general counsel of the Michigan Central railroad.  He was subsequently connected with the Illinois central railroad; organized the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, and was for many years at its head.  In 1867 he was president of the Michigan Central railroad; was for several years president of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific railway; and is now president and treasurer of the Detroit Union Railway Depot and Station company at Detroit, Mich.

5.  Anon.  2000.  Biography and Genealogy Master Index.  Gale Research Co., Detroit, MI (online at Ancestry.com):

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