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congress directed Admiral Hopkins, after his ac- quittal of charges of " disobedience of orders " by the marine committee, to fit out a fleet to sail to Newfoundland and another to the South Atlantic coast, owing to the absence of these ships he could not carry out the orders, and on their return he could not I'ecruit additional sailors to man the fleet owing to the demand from privateers. " For not paying due regard to the tenor of his instruc- tions," and witliout being charged with any specific offence or being asked to answer, he was suspended, March 25, 1777, and dismissed from the service, Jan. 2, 1778, at which time he refused to obey the citation of congress to appear. He was repeatedly elected a representative in the genei'al assembly of Rhode Island, and was em- ployed in recruiting and drilling soldiers for the American army. He was a trustee of Brown university, 1782-1802, and nominated James Manning, the first president of the College of Rhode Island (Brown university), a delegate to the Continental congress, and secured his election. He died in North Providence, R.I., Feb. 26, 1802.

HOPKINS, George Washington, representa- tive, was born in Goochland county, Va., Feb. 22, 1804. His father was first a Methodist and later a Protestant Episcopal clergyman. The son vras educated in the " old field " schools and studied law, teaching school in order to pay his law tui- tion. He became a lawyer in Lebanon, Va., and was a delegate to the state legislature, 1833-34; and a representative in the 24th and 25th con- gresses, 1835-39, and again in the 27tli, 28th and 29th congress, 1841-47, serving as speaker pro if e??i- pore of the house during the second session of the 28th congress. In 1847 he was appointed by Presi- dent Polk charge d'affaires of the United States to Portugal, and remained at the post for two years. He was elected a delegate in the Virginia legis- lature in 1849 and served as speaker. He was subsequently for a time judge of the circuit court and was returned to the U.S. congress as a representative in the 35th congress, 1857-59, from the Abingdon district, serving in that con- gress as chairman of the committee on foreign relations. He was again a representative in the Virginia legislature, 1859-61, and died, at Abing- don, Washington county. Va., March 2, 1861.

HOPKINS, Herbert Miiller, educator, was born in Hannibal, Mo., Oct. 15, 1870; son of the Rev. "William C. and Cornelia (Stevens) Hopkins and grandson of the Rt. Rev. John Henry and Melu- sina (Miiller) Hopkins. He prepared for college at the Toledo, Ohio, high school, and at the Co- lumbia grammar school, New York city, and was graduated from Columbia, A.B., 1893, and from Harvard, A.M., 1896, and Ph.D., 1898. He was instructor in Clieltenham academy, Ogontz, Pa., 1894-95, and became instructor in Latin at

the University of California in 1898. He was elected a member of the American Philological association in 1898. He was married, Aug. 2, 1899, to Pauline Bradford Mackie, author of Mademoiselle de Bemiy (1897); Ye Lyttle Salem Maide (1898); A Georgian Actress (1900). Dr. Hopkins is the author of various poems con- tributed to periodicals.

HOPKINS, Isaac Stiles, educator, was born in Augusta, Ga., June 20, 1841; son of Thomas and Rebecca (Lambuth) Hopkins, and a descendant of an Irish family. He was graduated from Emory college, Oxford, Ga., in 1859, and from the Medical College of Georgia in 1861. He was pro- fessor of Latin at Emory college, 1884; president of the college, 1883-87; professor of chemistry at Southern university, Greensboro, Ala., 1881- 83, and in 1887 organized the Georgia School of Technology, a branch of the state university, of which he was president, 1887-95. He studied the- ology in the Georgia Conference and was pastor of First Trinity and Merritt's Avenue churches, At- lanta, Ga., successively, 1887-95, and in 1899 be- came pastor of St. John's church, St. Louis, Mo. He received the degree of D.D. from Central college, Fayette, Mo., in 1882 and that of Ph.D. from Emory college in 1883. He lec- tured on educational subjects and contributed articles on philosophical and literary subjects to magazines.

HOPKINS, John Henry, first bishop of Ver- mont, and 26th in succession in the Ameri- can episcopate, was born in Dublin. Ireland, Jan. 30, 1792; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fitzakerly) Hopkins, and a descendant of the old Hopkins family ,,.w^_

of central England, who represented Co- ventry in the House of Commons as far back as the reign of Richard II. His fatlier was a mercliant, and his mother was the highly accomplished daughter of a fellow of Trinitj' college, Dublin. He immi- grated to the United States with his par-, ^

ents in 1801, settled ^^^/^ //, j/^iA't.tt^ " in western Pennsyl- '''" **

vania, and was educated principally by his motlier. He engaged in the iron business with James O'Hara in the Ligonier valley. The business failed to be profitable after the close of the war of 1812. and Mr. Hopkins was left in debt, wiiich he subsequently paid. He studied law, was admitted to the bar at Pittsburg in