Hooper, William – Hopkins, John Henry
Hooper, William
signer of declaration of independence, was born June 17, 1742, in Boston, Mass. In 1773 he was elected to the Massachusetts state assembly; was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1777, and signed the declaration of independence. He died in October, 1790, in Hillsborough, N. C.
Hooper, William H
merchant, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1813, in Cambridge, Md. In 1850 he removed to Utah; was a member of the legislature, and acting secretary of the territory. In 1859 he entered the thirty-sixth congress as a delegate from the territory of Utah, and was re-elected a delegate to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first and fortysecond congresses.
Hoopes, Edgar M
journalist, was born in Minerva, Ohio. Early in life he entered journalism, and was connected as correspondent with the Cleveland Leader, the Canton Repository, the Alliance Review, and the Chicago Times. He was called to the position of advertising manager of the Wilmington News, acquired a part ownership, and was soon made business manager, a position which he still holds. He devotes his whole time to the direction of affairs of his paper, and has made it the leading advertising medium in the state of Delaware.
Hoopes, Josiah
botanist, author, was born Nov. 9, 1832, in West Chester, Pa.
In 1853 he established a nursery at West Chester, which is now one of the most extensive in the country. He has published Book of Evergreens, a treatise on the cone-bearing plants of the world, which is a standard authority.
Hoovis, James Alexander
public official, was born Dec. 3, 1863, in Washington county, Tenn. He graduated from the Vanderbilt university, and received the degrees of B. A. and B. L. During 1877-80 he was page in the Tennessee senate; was sergeant-at-arms in 1880-81; assistant clerk of the senate during 1881-87; chief clerk of the senate during 1887-93, and since 1893 has been comptroller of the state of Tennessee.
Hope, James
artist, was born Nov. 29, 1818, in Scotland. In 1853 he opened a studio in New York, was elected associate academician in 1865, and since 1872 has resided at Watkin's Glen, N. Y. His pictures include The Army of the Potomac; Rainbow Falls; The Gem of the Forest; and The Forest Glen.
Hope, James Barron
lawyer, journalist, author, poet, was born March 23, 1827, in Norfolk, Va. He was a lawyer and journalist of Norfolk, and the author of Leoni di Monti, and Other Poems; An Elegiac Ode; Under the Empire, or the Story of Madelon; and Arms and the Man, and Other Poems. He died Sept. 15, 1887, in Norfolk, Va.
Hopkins, Albert
educator, astronomer, was born July 14, 1807, in Stockbridge, Mass. In 1835 he began on his own responsibility the building of an astronomical observatory in Williamstown, the first that was ever established in connection with an American college. He died May 24, 1872, in Williamstown, Mass.
Hopkins, Albert C
merchant, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 1837, in Villenova, N. Y. He was elected from Pennsylvania to the fifty-second and fiftythird congresses as a republican.
Hopkins, Albert J
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 15, 1846, in De Kalb county, Ill. He was state's attorney of Kane county, Ill., from 1872 to 1876, and was a presidential elector in 1884. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
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, Erastus
clergyman, author, was born April 7, 1810, in Hadley, Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman, long a resident of Northampton, Mass., and the author of The Family a Religious Institution. He died Jan. 24, 1872, in Northampton, Mass.
Hopkins, Frederick Vincent
educator, physician, surgeon, author, was born May 23, 1839, in Burlington, Vt.
He was surgeon and professor of geology in Louisiana state university; in charge of the geological survey of that state from 1868 till 1874, surgeon to the New Almaden and Sulphur Bank quicksilver mine in 1876-82, and since then has practiced medicine in San Francisco. He has originated a method of killing the bacilli of tuberculosis and leprosy by half-inch sparks from a Ruhmkorff coil. He has written four reports on the Geology of Louisiana.
Hopkins, George H
soldier, lawyer, legislator, manufacturer, was born Nov. 7, 1842, in White Lake, Mich. He received his education in the public schools of his native state; graduated from the Michigan State Normal school in 1867; and in 1871 from the law department of the university of Michigan. During the civil war he served as a union soldier in the seventeenth regiment Michigan volunteer infantry; and in 1889- 90 was adjutant-general of the Grand Army of the Republic. During 1879-84 he served with distinction as a member of the Michigan house of representatives; was speaker pro tem in 1883-84, and chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1888- 90 he was chairman of the republican state central committee, and in 1890-94 was collector of customs for the port of Detroit, in which city he has attained prominence as a business man and a successful manufacturer.
Hopkins, George W
educator, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 22, 1804, in Goochland county, Va. During 1833-34 he served in the house of delegates; was elected a representative in congress in 1835, and was re-elected until 1847, serving during one session as speaker of the house of representatives. In 1849 he went a second time into the house of delegates of Virginia, and was elected speaker of the house. He was subsequently elected a judge of the circuit court, and in 1857 was elected to the thirty-fifth congress. He died March 2, 1861.
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.
Hopkins, John Henry
bishop, author, was born Jan. 30, 1792, in Ireland.
He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of Vermont. A writer of vigor and versatility, prominent both as a high churchman and a controversialist. He was the author of History of the Confessional; The End of Controversy Controverted; The Primitive Church; Essay on Gothic Architecture; The Church of Rome in Her Primitive Purity; Scriptural View of Slavery, a defence of the institution; Law of Ritualism; Lectures on the Reformation; Twelve Canzonets, words and music; and History of the Church. He died Jan, 9, 1868, in Rock Point, Vt.