Hopkins, Harrison, West Bloomfield, was born in Dutchess county. May 28, 1790. He came to West Bloomfield about 1834 and located on the State road on the farm now owned by B. C. Hopkins, and resided there until his death in 1882. He was a public spirited man, but never a seeker after office. He early espoused the cause of the slaves, and was a great worker in their interests. While Fred Douglass had his home in Rochester he often spent much of his time with Mr. Hopkins and other sympathetic friends. Mr. Hopkins was in later life a Repulican. He was a member of the Congregational church and a strong temperance worker. He married in 1816 Merene Crosby of Dutchess county, who died in 1856. Their children were: Harriet, deceased, Aurelius H., of this town, Rhoda A., Lydia E., Charlotte, Harrison H. (the latter four deceased), Sarah Ann, who resides with her brother, Mary, wife of Charles Brown of Nebraska, William Clark, Lydia E. second (both deceased), Benjamin Crosby and Julia Frances, widow of T. R. Peck. All but the first lived to adult age. B. S. Hopkins has succeeded to the old farm. He is a Republican, a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and has never married.
