Bio of Hopkins, Edward Franklin (b.1849) Wabasha Co., MN
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Hopkins, Edward Franklin, was born at Manchester, Maine, September 3,
1849. At the age of five years his parents, Wm. H. Hopkins and Rhoda M.
moved to Readfield, Maine, where in 1858 his father died, leaving a good
property to the widow and the two small children, of which Edward was the
younger. The following year the mother moved with the family to Boston,
Massachusetts, where for two years. the children received the benefits of
a fine school. In April, 1860, they came to Minnesota, arriving at Lake
City late in the evening. The following morning Mrs. Hopkins became Mrs.
Standish, by being joined in wedlock to Rev. E. A. Standish, of Mazeppa,
the wedding taking place at the residence of DeWitt C. Sterry. Edward A.
Standish was a Methodist clergyman, and a direct descendant of Capt. Miles
Standish, of the Mayflower. Mrs. Hopkins had not seen Mr. Standish for
about twenty years, until the arrival in Lake City. They had known each
other in their earlier days. They came at once to Mazeppa and occupied the
Standish homestead. The war breaking out soon after this, Mr. Standish's
sons, Merit G. and Miles E. joined the 1st and 3d regiments respectively,
Minn. Vols., leaving Edward, the only remaining boy, at home to work the
farm. Several years of hard labor for Edward followed. At the close of the
war he was placed in school at Red Wing, and afterward at Hamline
University. He rapidly developed a taste for learning. He afterward went
to Rockford, Illinois, and took a full course in a commercial school at
that place. After this he went to Lake City and clerked for C. F. Young,
and has followed this business ever since, being at the present writing
engaged with E. L. Ford & Co., of Mazeppa. On December 20, 1875, he was
married to Josephine Sutherland. They have two children, Hattie and James
Shirley. Besides his duties in the store, he has also an insurance
business, and is notary public. He has also been engaged for several years
in breeding and raising for market fine hogs. His sales of fine animals
during 1882-3 amounted to over fifteen hundred dollars.