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				ALVASON AND MARY S. (KENYON) HOPKINS.

	Alvason Hopkins is a native of the Empire State.  Born in the county of Wayne in 1816, 
removed with his parents to Pittsford, in the adjoining county of Monroe, where his youth was 
spent, receiving as liberal an education as the common schools of the day afforded.  When about 
eighteen he removed to Clarkson, on the western borders of the same county, and two years later, 
which was in June, 1836, turned his face towards the setting sun, settling in the Peninsula 
State, which he has ever since made his home, first locating at Adrian, where he remained until 
January of the following year, when he removed to Ionia County, settling in Portland township.
	Mr. Hopkins therefore belongs to the older class of Ionia's pioneers, and is one of the 
few who have witnessed its change from the wilderness with its forest and bramble to cultivated 
fields and from the haunts of the red man to the home of the white.
	The general prosperity has been shared by Mr. Hopkins, and we find him to-day, 
forty-four years after he first landed in the county and located in the valley of Grand River 
for a permanent, secure in the competency which industry and economy have well earned, and with 
his wife, formerly Miss Mary S. Kenyon, daughter of one of the pioneers of Ionia County, enjoying
 the results of their labors and the confidence and respect of their neighbors and fellow-
citizens.



This biography is taken from "HISTORY OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN" 
by John S. Schenck. Philadelphia:  D. W. Ensign & Co., 1881. Between pages 338-319.  Portland.