Nicholas-Marion County KyArchives Biographies.....Hopper, James W. November 28 1839 - unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 December 21, 2004, 9:29 pm Author: Kentucky: A History of the State by Battle - Perrin - Kniffin, 3rd edition 1886 JAMES W. HOPPER, editor and manager of the Standard and Times of Lebanon, was born November 28, 1839, in Nicholas County, Ky., and is the son of John and Lucy A. (Campbell) Hopper. Subject received an academical education in Millersburg, Bourbon County, and on the 4th of July, 1850, graduated from Bethany College, W. Va., where, in addition to his pursuing his literary studies, he edited a college paper. Soon after his graduation he began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1862, but did not engage in the practice of his profession until five years later, devoting himself chiefly to teaching. In 1867 he established a practice in Lebanon, and in the following year was elected to the office of county attorney of Marion County, serving until 1874. He began his editorial work on the Lebanon Clarion in the meantime, and in 1870 inaugurated the Standard, which was consolidated with the Times in 1881, since which time he has virtually surrendered the law practice to devote himself exclusively to journalistic labor. He is Grand Master of the Masons for the State of Kentucky, and Past Grand Master of the Grand Council of the Royal and Select Masters of the same State. Mr. Hopper was married in Texas in 1872 to Miss Isabella Johnson, who died in 1875, leaving two children: Lee M. and Annie L. Hopper. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/