| Birth: | Sep. 15, 1806
Pittsford
Rutland County
Vermont, USA | | Death: | Jan. 21, 1878
Rutland
Rutland County
Vermont, USA | 
Adjutant General of Vermont. Well regarded lawyer and public speaker. Author of prose and verse. Graduate, Middlebury College, 1828. Studied law with brother in law Ambrose L. Brown. Admitted to bar, 1831. Practiced in Rutland. Long time Rutland Justice of the Peace. Rutland County Register of Probate, 1833-36. Active militia member, serving as Vermont's Adjutant and Inspector General, 1838-52. Spoke eulogy at Norwich University memorial service for Truman Ransom, university president and militia officer who was killed leading his brigade at Chapultepec, 1848. Clerk, Rutland County Courts, 1839-68. Organizer, Rutland Union School Distict, 1855. Earned accolades when he rose from his sick bed to supervise removal of records from court house during fire, April 3, 1868. Married twice. First wife Julia A. Hooker died. Second wife Ann E. Lawrence of Weybridge survived him. Author "A Manual for the Rutland County Bar," 1852. Member, Odd Fellows.
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Parents:
Hiram Hopkins (1772 - 1847)
Rachel Spotten Hopkins (1773 - 1839)
Spouses:
Julia Ann Hooker Hopkins (1810 - 1842)*
Anna E. Lawrence Hopkins (1816 - 1897)*
Children:
Sarah Hooker Hopkins Woodbury (1837 - ____)*
Martha Vinal Hopkins (1839 - 1843)*
Anna LaRose Lawrence Hopkins Burnham (1845 - 1871)*
William F. Hopkins (1854 - 1887)*
*Calculated relationship
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Evergreen Cemetery
Rutland
Rutland County
Vermont, USA |
Created by: Bill McKern
Record added: Apr 15, 2006
Find A Grave Memorial# 13966353 |
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We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott
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