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Rh Jesse P. Hope, M. D., born at Hampton, Va., in 1828, died at the same city, June 29, 1883; previous to the Confederate era received a literary education at the university of Virginia and studied medicine at the Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, with graduation as doctor of medicine in 1857. He established himself at Hampton in the practice of medicine, but abandoned his professional work at the call of his State early in 1861, enlisting as a lieutenant in the Washington artillery. He held this rank until after the battle of Bethel, when he was transferred to the medical department as field and hospital surgeon. He continued on duty in this capacity until the close of the war, during the greater part of his service being in charge of a hospital at Richmond. His professional skill and patriotic devotion were recognized by all with whom he came in contact. After the close of hostilities he returned to Hampton and there continued in professional work until his death. Dr. Hope was a cousin of the poet, James Barron Hope, and son of Dr. William Hope, who practiced medicine many years at Hampton and held the office of sheriff when that was the principal official honor of the county. The latter was the grandson of George Hope, Sr., the founder of the family in Virginia, who was sent from England upon the mission of inquiring into the feasibility of establishing a colonial navy, subsequently served in the Continental army, and, locating at Hampton, became the founder of the first Masonic lodge at that city. Surgeon Hope was married in January, 1857, to Mary Letitia, daughter of Colonel Taylor, of James City county, and seven children were born to them. The four sons are: George W., captain of Company D, Virginia volunteers, with Fitzhugh Lee's brigade in the Spanish war; Dr. Joseph W. Hope, of York county, born September, 1865, graduated from medical college of Virginia, November, 1888; Dr. Thomas P. Hope and James Barron Hope, Jr. Dr. Thomas P. Hope, a prominent young physician at Hampton, was born at that city December 15, 1867. He was educated at the Hampton academy, became a drug clerk at seventeen years, and continued in that occupation, with the exception of two and a half years in the railway postal service, until 1890, when he embarked in business as a pharmacist. Disposing of the business a year later, he entered the medical college of Virginia and was graduated in April, 1893, standing second in his class. For about three years he practiced in York county and then removed to Hampton. He is a member of the clinical society of the staff of Dixie hospital, is highly regarded by his professional brethren and popular with the community. He is also a member of the Seaboard medical society of Virginia and North Carolina. James Barron Hope, Jr., another of the sons of Surgeon Hope, was born at Hampton, May 3, 1872. He left Hampton academy at the age of sixteen to enter business life, and, seven years later, became a student of law at Washington and Lee university. Completing his course, he was admitted to practice in 1896, at Hampton. A year later he was elected mayor of the city, being the youngest man upon whom that honor was ever bestowed. He is a member of the camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans and a member of Company D, Fourth regiment Virginia infantry.

Major Jedediah Hotchkiss was a descendant of a family which settled in New Haven, Conn., in 1642, where its members were prominent in church and civil affairs, and served in the Indian,