Person:Mark Hopkins (7)

{source-wikipedia|Mark Hopkins (educator)}} 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 325 President Mark, D.D., LL.d. b. at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 4 February 1802; m. at Williamstown, Massachusetts, 25 December 1832, Mary Hubbell, b. 12 August 1813, daughter of Lyman N. Hubbell, b. 1768, and Louisa Rossiter, b. at Richmond, Massachusetts, 27 January 1788. (Hubbell Gen., p. 244.) He d. at Williamstown, 17 June 1887. She d. 18 July 1897. Dr. Hopkins, great-nephew of the theologian, Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D. D., was the venerated president of Williams College, whose career as an administrator, teacher, and author probably stands without a parallel in the history of American colleges. “He belonged among the latter religious leaders of New England. His endowments, his attainments, and his long service made him a unique figure among the teachers of this age.” (Carter.) In 1824 he graduated at Williams College, where he was tutor from 1825 to 1827, and where, in 1830, after having graduated the previous year at the Berkshire Medical College at Pittsfied, he became professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric. In 1833 he was licensed to preach in Congregational churches. In 1836, at the age of thirty-four, he became President of Williams, resigning in 1872, after service of thirty-six years. No prominent New England college had, up to that time, elected so youthful a president, but, as President Carter says: “In Professor Hopkins' case it may be said that he had the intellectual maturity of middle life at thirty, and intellectual freshness of thirty when he resigned his position in 1872, at the age of sixty-eight. He was mature when he was young, and young when he was old.” Dr. Hopkins continued his connection with the college as Professor of Moral Philosophy, until his death in 1887-a period of service from 1830, of fifty-seven years. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth in 1837 and Harvard in 1841; that of LL.D. by New York University in 1857, and Harvard in 1886. Among his many published writings were his lectures on “Evidence of Christianity” (1846), long a favorite text book; “Lectures of Moral Science” (1862); “The Law of Love and Love as a Law” (1869); “Teachings and Counsels” (1884). Dr. Hopkins took a lifelong interest in Christian missions, and for thirty years, from 1857 until his death, was president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. His name was placed in the Hall of Fame, New York City, in 1916. Mrs. Hopkins was a “kindly, lovable woman, who aided the discipline of the family, and both parents had that great dignity which establishes and readily maintains culture.” Her grandfather, Col. Nathan Hubbell, commanded the Berkshire troops at the battle of Bennington.

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