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Hopkins, Alphonso Alvah – Hopkins, James Herron

Hopkins, Alphonso Alvah

educator, journalist, lecturer, author, poet, was born in 1843 in New York. He is a journalist, educator, and lecturer, and the author of His Prison Bars, a Temperance Tale; Newspaper Poets; Our Sabbath Evenings; Sinner and Saint, a Novel; Life of General Clinton Fisk; Asleep in the Sanctum, and Other Poems; Waifs and Their Authors: Wealth and Waste; and Geraldine, a novel in verse on the model of Lucile.

Hopkins, Arthur F

jurist, was born in 1796 in Virginia. He moved to Alabama early in life, and became a prominent whig politician, practiced law successively in Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, and Mobile for many years. He died in February, 1866, in Mobile.

Hopkins, Benjamin F

business man, congressman, was born April 22, 1829, in Washington county, N. Y. He was private secretary to the governor of Wisconsin for one term; was a member of both branches of the legislature, and was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the fortieth and forty-first congresses. He died Jan. 3, 1870, in Madison, Wis.

Hopkins, Caspar Thomas

journalist, author, was born May 18, 1826, in Allegheny City, Pa. He is a California journalist who established the first insurance company on the Pacific coast. He published a Manual of American Ideas.

Hopkins, Charles Jerome

composer, was born April 4, 1836, in Burlington, Vt. His compositions embrace operettas, juvenile cantatas; church music, and secular songs and pieces for the piano.

Among his works are First Book of Church Music; Class Book for Notation Study; and Second Book of Church Music.

Hopkins, Edward Washburn

educator, author, was born in 1857 in Massachusetts. He is a professor of Sanskrit in Yale university, and the author of Mutual Relations of the Four Castes in Manu; Translation of Laws of Manu; Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India; and The Religions of India.

Hopkins, Ellen Dunlap

artist, philanthropist, was born Jan. 30, 1858, in New York city. In 1892 she founded the New York School of Applied Design for Women.

Hopkins, Elvira Mains

educator, author, poet, was born Nov. 13, 1835, in Athens, Maine. She has attained success in educational works; and is the author of Sunny Side Sketches.

Hopkins, George W

railroad president, was born Nov. 8, 1844, in West Virginia. Since 1882 he has been president of the Bear Lake and Eastern railroad.

Hopkins, Isaac Stiles

college president, was born June 20, 1841, in Augusta, Ga. In 1877 he entered the faculty of Emory college as professor of Latin; in 1882 was assigned to the chair of English and in 1885 was elected president, and took the chair of mental and moral science. He was appointed president of the Georgia School of Technology when it was established in 1889.

Hopkins, James C

jurist, was born in Vermont. He settled in Wisconsin, and in 1870 was appointed United States judge for the western district of Wisconsin, residing at Madison.

Hopkins, James Herron

lawyer, banker, congressman, was born Nov. 3, 1831, in Washington county, Pa. In 1872 he was candidate for congress for the state at large, and in 1874 was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress. He was elected `a representative to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.