Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Hopkins, William T 1819 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County 1914

Hopkins, William T. (deceased) – One of the early attorneys of Grundy County 
was William T. Hopkins of Morris, born in Maine, October 5, 1819, a son of 
David Hopkins.  Mr. Hopkins was educated in his native State, and there 
studied law.  He was admitted to the bar at Morris, Ill., in 1850, and began 
practicing immediately thereafter.  In the period embraced between 1853 and 
1855, he was also interested in a mercantile venture at the County Seat.  A 
man of prominence he was Superintendent of Public Instruction for one term; 
was Judge of the Grundy County Court for one term; served in the State 
Legislature for two years; and had the distinction of being one of the 
Presidential Electors in 1864 who cast the vote of Illinois for Abraham 
Lincoln.  In 1865 and 1866, he was a general agent of the Internal Revenue 
Department of the United States, and in 1863-64-65 he was president of the 
Sanitary and Christian Commission for this district.  In addition he served a 
three-months term in the army during the Civil War.  In 1846, Mr. Hopkins 
married Clara H. Prescott.  A Mason, he was Master of his lodge in 1882.  In 
politics a Republican, he remained steadfast to his party, and was very proud 
of the fact that he and Mr. Lincoln were warm, personal friends.  Both he and 
his wife were Baptists.

Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914, p832

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