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founding of Virginia; and in 1858 he twice gave
similar recitations—in Richmond, to celebrate
Washington's birthday, and in Williamsburg,
before the society of Phi Beta Kappa. These
compositions, with others more purely lyric, he
published in 1859 as A Collection of Poems.
When war came, he went immediately with the
Confederate army and did not leave it until, as
a major with Joseph E. Johnston, he surrendered
at Greensboro. In 1866 he is said to have been
at work on a "History of Southern Authors,"
but it was probably never completed, and his
only literary output of consequence during that
year is an "Elegiac Ode Read on the Completion
of a Monument to Annie Carter Lee," a hur-
riedly composed but stirring poem, quick with
a passion that he too often excluded from his
writings. After the war he lived in Norfolk,
where he did newspaper work first with the Nor-
folk Day Book, next with the Virginian, and at
last, from 1873 until his death, with his own able
and energetic Norfolk Landmark. In 1874 he
published Little Stories for Little People; and
in 1878, Under the Empire, a prose story of
France, based, he says in the preface, on a play
which he had written but not published In iSSi,
on the invitation of Congress, he prepared and
read at the celebration of Cornwallis' surrender
at Yorktown, a long "Metrical Address," enti-
tled Arms and the Man (1882). In April 1883,
without forsaking his newspaper, he became su-
perintendent of the Norfolk schools. When
death came to him, he had just completed a poem
which he was * planning to read at the unveiling
of the Valentine statue of Lee at Washington
and Lee University. He had married, in 1857,
Anne Beverly Whiting, of Hampton.

[Janey Hope Marr, Wreath of Va. Bay Leaves
(1895), a selection from Hope's poems edited by his
daughter; Wm. Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and
Families of Va. (1857), I, 237; J. W. Davidson, Living
Writers of the South (1869); M. L, Rutherford, The
South in Hist, and Lit. (1907) ; W. P. Trent, Southern
Writers (1905); L. G. Tyler, Encyc. of Va. Biog.
(1915), vol. Ill; C. W. Hubner, Representative South-
ern Poets (1906); Lib. of Southern Lit., vol. VI
(1909) ; Appletons' Annual Cyc.t 1887; Norfolk Land-
mark, Sept 16, 1887.] J.D.W.

HOPKINS, ARTHUR FRANCIS (Oct. 18,
1794-Nov* 10, 1865), lawyer, prominent in the
public affairs of Alabama, was born in Pittsyl-
vania County, Va., the son of James and Frances
(Carter) Hopkins. Through his paternal grand-
mother he was related to Thomas Jefferson; his
father served in the patriot army during the
Revolutionary War. Hopkins was educated at
several different private academies in Virginia
and North Carolina and attended the University
of North Carolina, but did not graduate. He

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studied law under William Leigh of Halifax
County, Va., and was admitted to the bar, Mar.
28,1814, in Bedford County, Va. The following
year he married Pamelia Thorpe Mosley, who
died in 1852. In 1816 he went to Huntsville,
Ala., where he became a successful practitioner
and acquired a reputation for effectiveness in
appeals to juries. Throughout his life he had a
wide variety of interests. He not only practised
law, but he became a large land owner, control-
ling plantations in Alabama and Mississippi. He
accumulated a considerable fortune through
speculation in real estate, and ten years before
his death he gave up his law practice to become
the president of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad.

Although he was related to the family of
Thomas Jefferson, he was throughout his life an
active opponent of the political principles of that
great leader. In his young manhood he was an
ardent supporter of Alexander Hamilton; in his
later years he was an admirer of Henry Clay,
and became the acknowledged leader of the Whig
party in Alabama. He was one of the authors of
the "Address of the Committee of the Whig Con-
vention to the People of Alabama" in 1840 and
was on the Harrison electoral ticket in that year.
In 1844 he was the temporary chairman of the
Whig national convention. Although he was
politically ambitious and frequently the candi-
date of his party, his views were so at variance
with those of most people of his state that he was
rarely elected to public office. He was a member
of the first constitutional convention in Alabama
in 1819 and a member of the state Senate from
1822 to 1824 inclusive. Here he attracted atten-
tion by his opposition to the establishment of a
state bank. In 1834 he was elected to the su-
preme bench of the state by a Democratic legis-
lature. His colleagues elected him chief justice,
but he resigned the office within a year to be-
come the candidate of his party for the United
States Senate. He was a candidate in 1844 and
again in 1849, after which year until the out-
break of the Civil War he gave his attention
chiefly to his private affairs. In 1861 he served
as Alabama's commissioner to Virginia to ar-
range for cooperation in secession. During the
war he was state agent for Alabama hospitals, in
which work he was assisted by his wife, Juliet
Ann (Opie) Hopkins [g.v.], whom he married
in 1854. He died at Mobile.

[The papers of Judge Hopkins disappeared during
the Reconstruction period, but there is in the Ala. Dept.
of Archives and Hist., among the Pickett papers, a
sketch of his life which Hopkins gave to Pickett in 1847.
Brief accounts of his career may be found in W. Gar-
rett, Reminiscences of Public Men in Ala. (1872), in
J. E. Saunders, Early Settlers in Ala. (1899), and in
T. M. Owen, Hist, of Ala. and Diet, of Ala. Biog.

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