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 HOPPER

HOPPIN

the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1786, A.M. 1789. He practised law in Easton, Pa., 1791, and in Philadelpliia, 1793-1842. He was leading counsel for Dr. Benjamin Rush in his suit against William Corbett, 1799, and conducted the defence in the impeachment trial of Associate Justice Samuel Chase, before the U.S. senate. He was a representative in the 15th congress, 1817-19, and voted to recharter the Bank of the United States. He removed to Bordentown, and was a representative in the New Jersey legis- lature and legal adviser of Joseph Bonaparte. He was U.S. judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, by appointment of President John Quincy Adams, 1838-43; member of the Penn- sylvania constitutional convention, 1837; vice- president of the American Pliilosophical society, 1831^3, and a member fi-om 1815; president of the Academy of Fine Arts; secretary of the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 1790- 91, and trustee, 1806-19, and 1833-43.' He was mar- ried to Emily, daughter of Governor Thomas Mif- flin, of Pennsylvania. He received the lionorary degree of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1818, from Columbia in 1818, and from Har- vard in 1831. He is the author of various ad- dresses and articles on ethical subjects, and of the national hymn Hail Columbia (1798). He died in Pliiladelphia, Pa., Jan. 15, 1843.

HOPPER, Isaac Tatem, philanthropist, was born in Deptford, N.J., Dec. 3, 1771; son of Levi and Rachel (Tatem) Hopper. He was by trada a tailor, having learned the craft from an uncle in Philadelphia, which city he made his home. He joined the Society of Friends, and subse- quently became a disciple of Elias Hicks. He was an early member of the Pennsylvania Abo- lition society, and one of the most active friends and advisers of the colored race in the city. He helped in organizing a society for the employ- ment of the poor, taught in and was overseer of the Benezet school for colored children, taught colored adults, inspected prisons, was guardian to helpless apprentices and did an immense amount of similar work without recompense. He was himself a poor man with a large famih^, but his house was a home for impoverished Friends, and he gave valuable advice to the society. He removed to New York in 1829, to take charge of a bookstore established by the Hicksites. He visited England and Ireland in 1830, and in 1841 he became treasurer and book- agent for the Anti-Slavery society. He was married twice: to Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah Tatum, of Woodbury, N.J., and a few years after her death, to Hannah Attmore, who sur- vived him. In 1845 he gave uj) all his business interests in order to devote his entire time to prison reform, in which he was aided by his mar-

ried daughter, Abby H. Gibbons, who, in con- junction with her father, founded the Isaac T. Hopper Home. See Life, by Lydia Maria Child (1853). He died in New York city, May 7, 1853.

HOPPIN, Augustus, illustrator, was born in Providence, R. I., July 13, 1838; son of Thomas Coles and Harriet Dunn (Jones) Hoppin, and grandson of Col. Benjamin and Anne (Rawson) Hoppin. He was graduated at Brown, A.B.. 1848, A.M., 1851; was a practising lawyer in Providence for a few years, and then went to Europe, where he studied art, 1854-55. On re- turning to the United States he devoted himself to drawing on wood and acquired fame as an illustrator. He designed the illustrations for: Hie Potiphar Papers (1853); Nothing to Wear (1857); Saijiugs of Mrs. Partington (1860); TJie Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1865). He wrote and illustrated: On The Nile (1871); V^ps and Downs on Land and Water; The European Tour in a Series of Pictures ( 1871 ); Crossing the Atlan- tic (1873); jubilee Days (1873); Hay Fever (1873); Recollections of Autoii House (1881); A Fashion- able Sufferer (1883); Ttvo Compton Boys (1885); Married for Fun (1885). He died in Flush- ing, N.Y., April 1, 1896.

HOPPIN, James flason, educator, was born in Providence. R.I., Jan. 17, 1830; son of Benjamin and Esther Phillips (Warner) Hoppin, and grand- son of Col. Benjamin and Anne(Rawson)Hoppin. He was graduated at Yale in 1840; and studied law at Harvard, where he obtained the degree of LL.B. in 1843. He studied at Union Tlieological seminary, New York city, 1843-44; was graduated at And- over Theological sem- inary in 1845; con- tinued the study of theology under Nean- der at the University of Berlin. 1846-47; travelled in Germany, Greece and Palestine, 1848-49, and was or- dained, March 27, 1850. Salem, Mass., 1850-59; went to Italy in 1860, and was professor of homiletics and pastoral charge at Yale college, 1861-79, and of the his- tory of art, 1879-99. He was pastor of the col- lege church, 1861-63; lecturer on forensic elo- quence in the law school, 1873-75; temporary teacher of homiletics in Union Theological semi- nary, New York city, 1880. He was elected a member of the American Oriental society; of the American Historical association; of the Ameri-

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