Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Hopkinson, William D. March 14, 1848 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jan Cortez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00020.html#0004939 April 17, 2009, 6:14 pm Author: Chapman Brothers WILLIAM D. HOPKINSON, merchant at Paris, and whose portrait we present upon the preceeding page, was born in Dutchess Co., N.Y., March 14, 1848. His father, William Hopkinson, was a native of Vermont, and by profession a surveyor and civil engineer. He came West about 1840, in the pursuit of his business, and assisted in the surveys of Lake and Osceola Counties, and while in the discharge of his dutes contracted disease, of which he died in 1860. His mother, Phebe (Scoutin) Hopkinson, was born in the State of New York. She settled in Mecosta Co., Mich., in June, 1862, locating with a family of five children, on a farm in Green Tp., on which she still resides. Mr. Hopkinson had such advantages for education as the common schools afforded, and took a short course of study in Eastman's Commercial College, at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He has spent 20 years of his life as a school-teacher, continuing that calling up to the spring of 1883. He opened his mercantile establishment at Paris in May of this year. He was married in 1872, to Mary A. Dodge, born in St. Lawrence County, N.Y., and is a daughter of Luther and Jane (Norton) Dodge. She is a lady of superior intellectual attainments and has devoted the greater part of the last 15 years to teaching. The graded school at Paris was under the care and management of herself and husband in 1882-3. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hopkinson: Cora M., in 1874, and Luther, Aug.29, 1883. Mr. Hopkinson held the position of Supervisor in 1879-80. The year 1881 he spent in Dakota for the benefit of his health, and on his return to Michigan in 1882, was re-elected, holding the post until the following spring. He is also a member of the School Board of Mecosta County. Additional Comments: 1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/mecosta/bios/hopkinso573nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb