Clark-Skagit-Pierce County WA Archives Biographies.....Hopp, Hon. George W. 1854 - 
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Source: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

    HON. GEORGE W. HOPP.  One of the most effective and appreciated 
contributors to the welfare and progress of Camas has been the Hon. George W. 
Hopp, owner and publisher of the Camas Post, through the columns of which 
paper he has been a stanch and persistent advocate of those things which are 
calculated to promote the advancement of a community along right lines, while 
in the sphere of private citizenship his record has gained for him a high 
place in public esteem.

     Mr. Hopp was born in northeastern Iowa in 1854 and is a son of Frederick 
and Sarah Hopp, both of whom are deceased. The father was a veteran of the 
Civil war, having served throughout that struggle with Company D, Twenty-first 
Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry. George W. Hopp attended the public schools 
to the age of twelve years, but in 1866 went to work as a printer's "devil" 
and has been identified with the printing and publishing business continuously 
since. He was employed at his trade in Iowa for five or six years, during 
which time he established the Corning Union, which he ran for a short time, 
and then went to Brookings, South Dakota, where he established the Brookings 
Press, which is still being published. He remained there twelve years, running 
a job printing business in connection with the paper, and became prominent in 
public affairs, having been appointed a member of the board of regents which 
established the State Agricultural College at Brookings.

     In 1890 Mr. Hopp came to Washington, locating first at Sedro Wooley, 
Skagit county, where he established the Sedro Press, which he conducted until 
1893, when he went to Olympia and in partnership with J. O. B. Stovey 
published the Daily Morning Olympian until 1897, after which he was connected 
with the state printing office at Olympia until 1913.  In that year he came to 
Camas and bought the Post, which had been founded here in 1908. On buying the 
plant he moved it to a better location farther down town, and in the following 
year he purchased the property which he now occupies, it being well adapted to 
the purpose for which it is used. The Post is a six-column, quarto-sized 
paper, containing from ten to twelve pages, and is published weekly, on 
Fridays. It is ably edited, compares favorably with any of its contemporaries 
in typographical appearance, and covers eastern Clark county, having a 
circulation of eleven hundred. In connection Mr. Hopp also has a well equipped 
job printing plant and has built up a large business in that line.

     While living in South Dakota, Mr. Hopp was united in marriage to Miss 
Edith McBride, who died in 1926, and they became the parents of three 
children, namely:  Douglas, who is connected with the state highway 
department; Edith, who remains at home; and Blaine, who is with the Union Oil 
Company. He is married and has six children, Muriel, Grace, Elaine, Richard, 
Kenneth and Margaret.

     In his political views Mr. Hopp is a stanch republican and has shown a 
deep interest in public affairs. While living in South Dakota he served twelve 
years as postmaster and since coming to Washington has stood high in the 
councils of his party. In 1901-03 he represented Thurston county in the state 
legislature and was the representative from Clark county in 1921-23. He was a 
member of the board of regents which established the Washington Agricultural 
College at Pullman and has in other ways shown an effective interest in the 
welfare of his state. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he 
has received the degrees of the Royal Arch chapter. A man of alert mentality, 
a student of the great issues of the day and a man of well defined opinions, 
he has been influential in the circles in which he has moved and throughout 
the range of his acquaintance he is accorded the highest measure of confidence 
and regard.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 319-320

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