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collegiate grade for men in the state, though
technological education was in its early days the
object of distrust, opposition, and scoffing. The
objections of manufacturers caused the sale of
articles made in the shops to be discontinued.

Withdrawing from educational work in 1896,
Hopkins reentered the ministry, serving pas-
torates in Atlanta, Ga., St. Louis, Mov Chatta-
nooga, Tenn., Athens, Ga., and Lagrange, Ga.
In 1908 he retired from active work. He had
little relish for administrative duties but found
pleasure in his study and workshop. As a min-
ister and instructor who ranged over wide fields
of learning he illustrated an old type of college
professor; as a pioneer in technological educa-
tion he was one of the builders of the new South.
He was twice married: first, in 1861, to Emily
Gibson; and second, in 1874, to Mary Hinton.

[Commencement Bulls, of Ga. School of Technology
for 1913 and 1914; C. E. Jones, Educ. in Ga. (1889),
pub. by U. S. Bur. of Educ.; Jour, of No. Ga. Confer-
ence for 1914; Who's Who in America, 1912-13; At-
lanta Constitution, Feb. 4, 1914; article by Hopkins,
"Technical Training for the South/' in Dixie (At-
lanta), Sept. 1885.] E.H.J.

HOPKINS, JAMES CAMPBELL (Apr. 27,
i8ic)-Sept 3, 1877), federal judge, was born in
Rutland County, Vt, of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
He was the son of Ervin Hopkins, a farmer who
had been educated at Middlebury College, and
the grandson of James Hopkins, an early Ver-
mont settler from Rhode Island who served un-
der Ethan Allen during the Revolution. When
James Campbell was a small boy his family
moved across the state line into the adjoining
county of Washington, N. Y., and settled at
Granville, where he worked on the farm, attend-
ed the rural school, and, for a brief period, went
into North Granville to the academy. In 1840 he
made up his mind to become a lawyer and, as was
the custom of that time, began to study law in
a local law office. His education had been
meager, but five years of earnest study under the
supervision of friendly counselors, coupled with
native talent and power of sustained application,
gave, him no mean equipment for the profession.
He was admitted to the bar in the January 1845
term of the supreme court at Albany and that
same year married Mary Allen at Schaghticoke,
Renssdaer County, N. Y. He began practice in
association with his former preceptors and soon
won standing and reputation. By appointment
of President Fillmore he served as postmaster at
the village of Granville for five years. In 1853
he was elected to the state senate in which he be-
came a member of the important judiciary com-
mittee and an influential senator, but in 1855 he
was defeated for reelection by his Know-Nothing
opponent.

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This political disappointment was probably
the cause of his removal to the new state of Wis-
consin, where in 1856 he settled at Madison
in association with Harlow S. Orton [q.v.].
Equipped by his experience in the New York
legal system, which had trained him not only in
the common law but also in the reformed code of
procedure, Hopkins performed the principal
work of arranging that code for Wisconsin and
of adapting it to the constitutional and judicial
system of the younger state. Originally a Whig,
he allied himself with the newly organized Re-
publican party, but he no longer manifested am-
bition for political honors. His interest was his
profession. He had become a cautious, safe
counselor, familiar with business life and affairs,
and endowed with sound, practical judgment.
While not gifted with marked power of elo-
quence, he was an excellent trial lawyer, win-
ning his cases by thorough preparation, wide
knowledge of the law, and his ability to persuade.
On July 9, 1870, he was commissioned by Presi-
dent Grant to the bench of the newly created fed-
eral court for the western district of Wisconsin.
During the period of legal and economic develop-
ment that followed, his work as judge was
distinguished by industry, ability, methodical
promptness, kindly courtesy, and unwearied pa-
tience. He was particularly strong in equity
cases, and in the administration of the bank-
ruptcy law he had no superiors. During the last
year of his life he also served as a professor in
the law school of the state university along with
such distinguished colleagues as I. C Sloan and
William P. Lyon [qq.v.]. He died at the age of
fifty-eight His second wife, Cornelia Bradley
of Beloit, Wisv and his children survived him.

[J. R. Berryman, Hist, of the Bench and Bar of Wis.
(1898), vol. II; 44 Wis. Reports, 23; 7 Bissett's Re-
ports (7th U. S. Circuit), 9; A. M. Hemenway, The
Vt. Hist. Gazetteer, vol. Ill (1877), Wisconsin State
Journal (Madison), Sept. 3, 1877.] R.W.

HOPKINS, JOHN BURROUGHS (Aug.
25, 1742-Dec. 5, 1796), naval officer, was born
at Providence, R. I., the eldest of the ten children
of Esek [q.v.'] and Desire (Burroughs) Hopkins.
He was a nephew of Stephen Hopkins [4.^.] and
related to many of the prominent Rhode Island
families. On Oct. 2,1768, he married his cousin,
Sarah Harris, by whom he had no children. Like
so many others of his family he followed the sea
in early life. In 1772 he took part in the destruc-
tion of the British armed revenue schooner Gas-
pee in the Providence River. On Dec. 22, 1775,
he was appointed captain of the 14-gun brig
Cabot of the Continental navy and, the next Feb-
ruary, sailed on the New Providence expedition

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