Person:Henry Hopkins (7)

BIOGRAPHY: John Hopkins and Some of his Descendants By Timothy Hopkins Printed and bound in the United States of America by Stanford University Press 1932 - Page 495 Rev. Henry, D.D. b. at Williamstown, Massachusetts, 30 November 1837; m. (1) at Easthampton, Massachusetts, 20 September 1866, Alice E. Knight, b. there 20 August 1844, daughter of Hon. Horatio G., b. 24 March 1817, and Mary A. (Huntoon) Knight. She d. 17 April 1869. He m. (2) at Cohoes, New York, 10 October 1876, Jeanette Miller Southworth, b. at Lowel, Massachusetts, 15 October 1854, daughter of William Steuben Southworth, b. 14 July 1807, and Jeanette Lyman Miller, b. 20 October 1818. (Southworth Gen. [1905]. P. 390: Lyman Gen, [1872], p. 440.) He d. of pneumonia at Rotterdam, Holland, 18 August 1908, and was buried at Williamstown, 20 September 1908. A Congregational clergyman and seventh president of Williams College. He graduated from Williams in 1858, from the Union Theological Seminary, and received from Amherst and Marietta colleges the degree of D. D. In 1861 Mr. Hopkins received from President Lincoln a personal commission (before the office was created by law) as United States Army Hospital Chaplain, and served at Alexandria, Virginia, until 1864; was in the field with the One Hundred Twentieth New York Volunteers 1864-65. He took ambulance corps, under flag-of-truce, on the battlefield of Chantilly and Bull Run, was at the front during the campaign of the Army of the Potomac from the Rapidan to Appomattox, and was instrumental in securing by the Second Congregational Church of Westfield, Massachusetts, remaining until 1880, when he took charge of the First Congregational Church of Kansas City, Missouri. From there he was called in 1902 to the presidency of Williams College and administered that office until his decease. (Cooke's Memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts [1906], 2:92; Who's Who [1908-1909].) Mr. Hopkins was a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and its Vice-President; a trustee of Williams College; a member of the National Association of Charities and Corrections; Chaplain (1899) of the Commander in Chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and of the Sons of the Revolution of Missouri. In politics he was Republican.

1. ↑ Overlijden, in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Stadsarchief Rotterdam - Burgerlijke Stand
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