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Hopson, Winthrop Hartly

clergyman, was born April 26, 1823, in Christian county, Ky. In 1841 he graduated from the Missouri State university, and entered the ministry of the christian church. In 1843 he received the degree of M. D. from the McDowell college of St. Louis, Mo., and mediciné practiced for six years, not ceasing in the meantime from his ministerial work. He gave much attention to the founding and nurturing of schools and colleges, and was mainly instrumental in building up a flourishing female academy at Palmyra.

After the war he filled pastorates in Richmond, Va., and in Louisville, Ky. In 1874 he returned to Missouri, and a year later became president of the Christian university of Canton. In 1877 he was prostrated by disease and died.

HOF WOOD, JOSEPHUS, clergyman, educator, college president, was born April 18, 1843, in Montgomery county, Ky. He attended the Eureka college of Abingdon, Ill., and the Kentucky university of Lexington. During the civil war he he served as a union soldier in the seventh Illinois cavalry, was twice captured, and spent four months on Belle Island, Va. After the war he went to college, and subsequently attained success as a clergyman and educator. He has been president of the Milligan college of Tennessee since its founding in 1882; was managing editor of The Pilot of Nashville in 1895, and in 1896 was the prohibition candidate for governor of Tennessee. He has also attained prominence as a lecturer on prohibition and reform subjects.