Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Archibald HOPPER
History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade & Barton Counties,
Missouri. Published by Goodspeed, 1889 
Biographies of Polk County, pg. 656 

    Archibald Hopper, farmer and stock-raiser of Johnson Township,
Polk County, Mo., was born in Marshall County, Tenn., in 1823 and
is the son of Charles Hopper, who was born in North Carolina, but
who emigrated to Tennessee, locating in Bedford County, and there
passed the remainder of his life. He was a soldier in the War of
1812, and drew a land warrant. He was married to Miss Susan Penn,
also a native of North Carolina, and to them were born four 
children, Archibald Hopper being the youngest child and only son. 
Mrs. Hopper died in Texas, whither she had gone with some of her 
children. The paternal grandmother was born in North Carolina, and
at an early date moved to Missouri, where she died. The subject of
this sketch grew to manhood in Tennessee, was married there to 
Miss Margaret Gibbons, a native of Tennessee, who bore him two 
children there, and later became the mother of ten children, viz.:
Andrew M., died at the age of twenty-one years; Elizabeth M., wife
of John Heard; Sarah C. F. and Charles H. (twins); Nancy J. Fox 
died at the age of thirty-five years; Thomas; Susan C., wife of 
C.C. Ayers; James A.; Alvin W., died at the age of sixteen years;
America E., wife of Henry C. Maxwell; Henry S.; and Margaret, 
wife of John Penman. The mother of these children died in 1864, 
and Mr. Hopper then married Mrs. Harriet A. (Rule) Mitchell, and
three children were born to this union, Harriet L., wife of J. G.
Walker; Tennessee, died in infancy, and Ollie died at the age of 
three years. Mrs. Harriet Hopper died in 1870, and Mr. Hopper 
married Miss Mary E. Mitchell, but no relative of the former 
family of Mitchells, in 1871. Mr. Hopper came to Missouri 
March 28, 1847, and raised the first crop where Humansville is
now located. The next year he entered fifty acres of land, 
settled on the same, and here he has remained ever since. During
the Civil War he enlisted in the Union army, in Company C, 
Eighth Missouri State Militia, and was in service about two years. 
He was appointed constable of Johnson Township, and, in order to 
fill the office, was discharged from regular service. He has been 
road overseer of the township for two years, and overseer of 
one-half the township once since. He has an excellent farm of 
205 acres, also raises stock, and is one of the first-class 
farmers of the county, his property being the result of his own
exertions. He is a Master Mason, a Republican, and is a member 
of the Missionary Baptist Church.
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