Hopkins, Lemuel
author, poet, was born June 19, 1750, in Waterbury, Conn.
He was a political writer of note in his day, author of satires, poems, and a favorite version of Psalm cxxxii. With Barlow and others he wrote the Anarchiad, a plea for an efficient federal constitution.
He died April 14, 1801, in Hartford, Conn.
HOPKINS, MRS. LOUISA PARSONS (STONE), educator, author, poet, was born April 19, 1834, in Newburyport, Mass.
She was an educator of Boston, for some years a member of the Boston school board, and the author of How Shall My Child Be Taught? Practical Pedagogy; Educational Psychology; Observation Lessons in Primary Schools; Cosmic Geography; Handbook of the Earth; Parables of Nature and Life. In verse she wrote, Motherhood; Breath of the Field and Shore; and Easter Carols.
HOPKINS, MRS. LOUISA (PAYSON), author, was born Feb. 24, 1812, in Portland, Maine. She was a writer of religious works for young people, the wife of Professor Albert Hopkins, Williamstown, Mass. She was the author of The Pastor's Daughter; Lessons on the Book of Proverbs; Henry Langdon; The Guiding Star; The Silent Comforter; and Select Thoughts. She died Jan. 24, 1862.