Hopkins, John Henry – Hopper, Harry Shelmire
Hopkins, John Henry
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Oct. 28, 1820, in Pittsburg, Pa. He was an episcopal clergyman who founded The Church Journal, of which he was long the editor. Among his writings are included Carols, Hymns, and Songs; Poems by the Wayside; Life of Bishop Hopkins; Faith and Order of the Protestant Church in the United States; and a translation of Goethe's Autobiography. He died Aug. 23, 1891, in Hudson, N. Y. a
Hopkins, John W. C
lawyer, was born Dec. 24, 1874, in Tucson, Ariz. He received his education at the South Dakota Agricultural college. He was admitted to the bar of the supreme court at the age of nineteen years; was elected state's attorney the same year, and has the distinction of holding that position at an age younger than any other in the United States.
He has gained prominence as a political speaker, and his humorous writings have attracted considerable attention in the world of literature.
Hopkins, Johns
banker, railroad president, philanthropist, was born May 19, 1795. He was the founder of the Johns Hopkins university, Hospital and Orphan asylum of Baltimore. He was a successful bank president, railroad president and capitalist. He died Dec. 24, 1873, in Baltimore, Md.
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.
Hopkins, Mark
clergyman, college president, author, was born Feb. 4, 1802, in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman who was president of Williams college in 1836-72. He was the author of Lectures on Moral Science; The Law of Love and Love as a Law; Discourses and Essays; Outline Study of Man; The Scriptural Idea of Man; Teachings and Counsels; and Evidences of Christianity. He died June 17, 1887, in Williamstown, Mass.
Hopkins, Mark
journalist, author, was born in 1851 in Massachusetts. He was a journalist in London, and the author of The World's Verdict, a novel.
Hopkins, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 17, 1721, in Waterbury, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Newport, R. I., the founder of what has been called Hopkinsian divinity. The System of Doctrine Contained in Divine Revelation is his principal work. Others are, The True State of the Unregenerate; Nature of True Holiness; and The Duty and Interest of American States to Emancipate Their Slaves. He died Dec. 20, 1803, in Newport, R. I.
Hopkins, Samuel
soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born about 1750 in Albemarle county, Va. He served in the revolutionary war, fought at Princeton, Trenton, Monmouth, Brandywine, and Germantown, and also as lieutenantcolonel of a Virginia regiment at the siege of Charleston. He moved to Kentucky in 1797, and served a number of years in the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1813 to 1815. He died in October, 1819, in Henderson, Ky.
Hopkins, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born April 11, 1807, in Hadley, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of New England, long a resident of Northampton, Mass. He was the author of The Puritans and Queen Elizabeth; Lessons at the Cross; and Youth of the Old Dominion. He died Feb. 11, 1887, in Northampton, Mass.
Hopkins, Samuel J
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1843, in Prince George county, Md. He enlisted in company A, second Maryland infantry, confederate states of America, and served during the war. After the war he settled in Lynchburgh, and was elected to the fiftieth congress.
Hopkins, Samuel Miles
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born May 9, 1772, in Salem, Conn. He was a jurist of New York state; and a representative in congress in 1813-15. He was the author of Chancery Reports; and Treatise on Temperance. He died March 9, 1837, in Geneva, N. Y.
Hopkins, Samuel Miles
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 8, 1813, in Geneseo, N. Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor in Auburn Theological seminary from 1847, and the author of Manual of Church Polity; and Liturgy and Book of Common Prayer.
Hopkins, Stephen
signer of the declaration of independence, was borń March 7, 1707, in Providence, R. I. In 1742 he moved to Providence and entered the mercantile business. From 1751 to 1754 he was chief justice of the superior court; and in 1755 was elected governor of the state, and, with the exception of four years, served until 1768. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1777, and also in 1778, and a signer of the declaration of independence. He was the author of History of the Planting and Growth of Providence. He died July 13, 1785, in Providence, R. I.
Hopkins, Stephen T
merchant, congressman, was born March 25, 1849, in New York city. He is an iron merchant; was a member of the assembly of the state of New York in 1885-86, and was elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.
Hopkins, Theodore Weld
educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 5, 1841, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1873 he was called to the chair of church history in the congregational theological seminary at Chicago, Ill. In 1881 he accepted the pastorate of the Central Presbyterian church in Rochester, N. Y. He is the author of an historical essay on The Doctrine of Inspiration.
Hopkins, Thomas Cramer
geologist, author, was born May 4, 1861, in Centre county, Pa. During 1889-92 he was assistant state geologist of Arkansas, and filled the same position in 1895-96 in Indiana. Since 1896 he has filled the chair of economic geology in the State college of Pennsylvania. His specialty is building stones, on which subject he has published many valuable papers.
Hopkins, Vira M. Darling
poet.
She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Sunny Side Sketches.
Hopkins, William Henry
college president, was born Dec. 20, 1841, in Greensborough, Md. He was elected vicepresident of St. John's college in 1881, and in 1884 was appointed president.
Hopkinson, Francis
signer of the declaration of independence, was born Sept. 21, 1738, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a signer of the declaration of independence. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress in 1776 and 1777; was a judge of the admiralty court; and subsequently a judge of the United States district court. He was the author of The Pretty Story; The Prophecy; The Political Catechism; and The New Roof.
He is best known by his humorous poem, The Battle of the Kegs. Three volumes of his Miscellaneous Writings were published in 1792. He died May 9, 1791, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Hopkinson, Joseph
lawyer, jurist, congressman, poet, was born Nov. 12, 1770, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1815 he was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, and served until 1819, after which he resided in Bordentown, N. J., until appointed judge of the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, when he returned to Philadelphia, and held this office until his death. He published many interesting addresses, and wrote the song Hail Columbia. He died Jan. 15, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Hopper, Harry Shelmire
lawyer, genealogist, was born June 13, 1858, in Philadelphia, Pa. He received his degree of bachelor of arts from the Central High school of Philadelphia in 1875; and in 1880 received the degree of master of arts from the same institution. In 1878 he graduated from the university of Pennsylvania with the degree of bachelor of laws; was admitted to the bar. the following year, and has continued in active practice ever since in Philadelphia.
He has been an occasional contributor to historical magazines, and has given much time to genealogical research and to the compiling of a history of the Hopper Family and Collateral Lines. He is historian of the Association Alumni of the Central High School of Philadelphia, and a prominent member of various clubs and associations in his native city.