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political subjects; was first an infidel and after- ward a student of the Bible, writing in defence of Chi-istian theology. He received the lioiiorary degree of M.A. from Yale in 1784. Among liis poems are: The Hypocrite s Hope, and an elegy on Tlte Victims of a Cancer Qiiack. He died in Hartford. Conn.. April 14, 1801.

HOPKINS, Mark, educator, was born in Stock- bridge, Ma-is.. Fel). 4, 1S02; son of Archibald and Mary (Curtis) Hopkins, and grandson of Col. Mark and Electa ("Williams) Hopkins. His father was a farmer: his grandfather was grad- uated at Yale in 1758, was a lawyer in Great Barrington and was killed in battle at Wliite Plains, N.Y., Oct. 26, 1776. His grandmother Hop- kins was a half-sister of Ephraim "Williams, founder of Williams college, opened in 1793. He was gradu- ated at "Williams, A.B., in 1824, A.M., in 1827; was a tutor at "Williams, 1825-27; studied medicine in the degree of M.D. school in 1829; was philosophy and rhetoric 1830-36; president of the

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New York, and received from Berkshire Medical professor of moral in "Williams college college, 1836-72; professor of moral and intel- lectual philo.sophy there, 1836-87; of Christian theology, 1858-87, and pastor of the college church, 1836-83. He was president of the A.B.C. F.M., 1857-87. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Dartmouth in 1837 and from Harvard in 1841: that of LL.D. from the University of the State of New York in 1857 and from Harvard in 1886. He was a trustee of Williams college, 1836- 87; a member and president of the American An- tiquarian society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In October, 1900, his name in " Class C, Educators '" received forty- seven votes for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York university, Horace Mann alone in the class receiving a place, Mark Hopkins standing second. He is the author of: Lectures on Evidences of Christ iauitij (1846; new ed., 1864); Miscellaneous Essays and Dis- courses (1847); Lectures on Moral Science {\8G2); Baccalanreate Sermons and Occasional Discourses (1863); 77ie Law of Love, and Love as a Law; or Christian Ethics (1869); An Outline Study of Man (1873); Strength and Beauty (1874); Scrij)- tural Idra of Man (1883). He died in Williams- town, Mass., June 17, 1887.

HOPKINS, rioses Aaron, diplomat, was born in Dublin. Pulaski county, Va., Dec. 25, 1846. He was a chilli of slave parents and in 1862 took ref- uge in the lines of the Federal army. He learned the alphabet after 1800, studied at Avery college and was graduated from Lincoln university in

1874, and from Auburn Theological seminary in 1877, where he was the first colored man to gradu- ate. He was ordained by the presbytery of Balti- more in 1877 and was pastor and teacher at Frank- linton, N.C., 1877-85. He was married, Oct. 14,

1875, to Carrie Elizabetli Payne, of Utica, N.Y., and in 1885 was appointed bj- president Cleveland U.S. minister resident and consul-general to Li- beria. He died in ^Monrovia, Liberia. Aug. 3, 1886.

HOPKINS, Samuel, theologian, was born in Waterbury, Conn., Sept. 17, 1721; son of Tim- othy and Mary ( Judd) Hopkins; grandson of John Hopkins; great-grandson of Stephen and Dorcas (Bronson) Hopkins, and greats-grandson of John Hopkins, who settled at Cambridge ia 1634 and removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1636. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1741; A.M., 1744. He studied theology under Jonatiian Edwards, and was pastor at Housatonic, Mass., 1743-69; at Newport, R.I., 1770-76; and during the occu- pation of Newjjort by the British he preached at Newburj-port, Mass., and at Canterbury and Stam- ford, Conn. He could not rebuild his congrega^ tion in Newport after the war, and depended for his subsistence on weekly contributions and the help of fi'iends. He was deprived of the use of his limbs by an attack of paralysis in 1799. He freed his own slaves and advocated universal emancipation and colonization in Africa. His particular theory of sin and its punishment be- came known as Hopkinsianism and his theolog- ical belief marked an epoch in religious thouglit in New England. He received the honorary de- gree of D.D. from Brown university in 1790. He published, besides various sermons: A System of Doctrines Contained?'» Divine Revelation (1793); Life of President Edwards; Life of Susannah Anthony: Life of Mrs. Osborne. Dr. Stephen West published his works in 1805 and Dr. Edward A. Parks his collected writings and a memoir in 1852. See also Memoir containing;; complete bib- liography by John Ferguson (1830). He died in Neu|K,it. R.I.. Dec. 20, 1803.

HOPKINS, Samuel, soldier, was born in Albe- marle county, Va., about 1750. He was an officer under Washington in the American Revolution and was conspicuous in the battles at Princeton, Trenton, Monmouth and Brandy wine. He was a hero of the battle of Germantown. where he was commander of a battalion of light infantry which was nearly anniliilatefl. and where, while leading liis men, be was .severely wounded. He was lieutenant-colonel of tiie 11th Virginia at the