Hoppin

means enabled him to do much for the relief of
suffering. He made several attempts to discover
a more official way of giving service but was
refused because of age. At last, in 1917, he ac-
cepted an offer to take the place of the professor
of classical archeology at Bryn Mawr during the
absence in service of Professor Rhys Carpenter.
Thus for two years he was again engaged in
teaching. Meanwhile, besides several short ar-
ticles, he had brought out a new and enlarged
edition of his thesis under the title Euthymides
and His Fellows (1917) and had conceived the
plans of what will probably be regarded as his
greatest contributions to science, A Handbook
of Attic Red-Figured Vases, which was pub-
lished in two volumes in 1919, and A Handbook
of Greek Black-Figured Vases, published at
Paris in 1924. These contain very complete and
carefully compiled lists of all vases signed by
Greek potters and painters or attributed to an-
cient painters, and have become standard refer-
ence books for all workers in the field.

Long before the completion of the Black-Fig-
ured Vases, Hoppin was stricken with a fatal
disease, but he kept at work in spite of a series
of operations and increasing pain. In the last
year of his life he worked at his final publication,
a volume of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
devoted to his own excellent collection of Greek
vases and that of his friend Albert Gallatin of
New York. Final proofs he was unable to read,
and the book was brought out in 1926 under the
supervision of Mr. Gallatin. Hoppin's collection
of vases, together with a collection of Greek
terra-cotta figures and Etruscan gold work and
bronzes, he bequeathed to his Alma Mater, as
well as his very complete working library on
Greek ceramics. These are now deposited in the
Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. He
was twice married, first to Dorothy Woodville
Rockhill in 1901, and second to Eleanor Dennis-
toun Wood in 1915. His career as an archeolo-
gist is significant because it shows that the
"private scholar," so familiar in Europe, may
also thrive under American conditions.

[Edmond Pettier, in Revue Archeologique, Apr.-
June 1925 ; Sir Charles Walston, in the Times, London,
Feb. 4, 1925 ; G. H. Chase, in Am. Jour. Archaeol., vol.
XXIX (1925) ; Harvard Grads. Mag., Man 1925; pub-
lished reports of the Harvard College class of 1893,
especially the Fourth (1910), Fifth (1913), and Seventh
(1953); N. F. Times, Feb. i, 1925! £.H. c.

HOPPIN, WILLIAM WARNER (Sept. i,
i8o7-Apr. 19, 1890), lawyer, legislator, and gov-
ernor of Rhode Island, brother of James Mason
Hoppin [#.£>.], was born in Providence. His
English ancestor, Thomas Hoppin, settled in
Massachusetts about 1635. Descendants removed

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to Rhode Island before the Revolution, when
Benjamin Hoppin proved his patriotism by re-
signing a colonelcy under the King to become a
captain in the Continental Army. Benjamin
Hoppin's son, another Benjamin, was a pros-
perous man of affairs in Providence. He and his
wife, Esther Phillips Warner, who came from
Middletown, Conn., had six children of whom
William was the third. William Hoppin re-
ceived his college education at Yale, graduating
in the class of 1828. He continued at Yale in the
study of law, and in 1830 was admitted to the bar.
While a student in New Haven he had met Fran-
ces Street of that city, and on June 26,1832, they
were married Hoppin's political life began in
1838 when he became a common councilman in
Providence; he served in that capacity four
years. Following an interval of foreign travel,
he was alderman from 1847 to 1852. The suc-
ceeding year, 1853, he was a state senator, and in
1854, 1855, and 1856 he was elected governor of
Rhode Island.

These were the years in which the moribund
Whig party was virtually put out of existence by
the Know-Nothing party. In Rhode Island, just
previous to this time, the state had been stirred
by the Dorr War [see sketch of Thomas Wilson
Dorr], and by 1854 reaction had set in. The
Dorrites, counting in their ranks both foreigners
and Catholics, were supported by the Democratic
party, but by reason of the birth or creed of many
of their number, were the natural opponents of
the Know-Nothing group whose slogan was
"America for the Americans/' The Know-Noth-
ings were also strongly in favor of prohibition
legislation. William Hoppin, nominally a Whig,
was a native-born American and an ardent advo-
cate of temperance; he was thus assured the new
party's backing and won all three of his elections
without serious opposition. His success was not
entirely due to political conditions, however; his
proven honesty and ability were contributory
causes. He refused a fourth term as governor,
and in 1857 declined nomination as United States
senator. On being pressed to become a candidate
for the same office in the following year he yield-
ed, but lost by a narrow margin, He continued
to serve the state in various capacities, allying
himself with the new Republican party when it
came into being. In 1861 he was appointed state
delegate to the Peace Congress in Washington.
In 1866 he was again a state senator, and from
1867 to 1872 he held the judicial position of
registrar in bankruptcy. In 1874-75 he was a
member of the state House of Representatives
for one year. The enumeration of his terms of
office does not adequately suggest his activities;

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