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HOPKINS, JOHN H, 



According to a military convention con- 

 cluded with Prussia, on April 7, 1867, all the 

 troops of Hesse have been, since October 1, 

 1867, incorporated with the Prussian army, con- 

 stituting the third division of the Eleventh 

 Army Corps. They number 15,000 field troops 

 and 5,800 reserves. 



HOPKINS, Rt. Kev. JOHN HENEY, D. D., 

 D. 0. L., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, for the Diocese of Vermont, and for 

 some years past Presiding Bishop of the Prot- 

 estant Episcopal Church in the United States ; 

 born in Dublin, January 30, 1792 ; died in 

 Rock Point, Vt., January 9, 1868. He came to 

 America with his parents in 1800. His educa- 

 tion was chiefly superintended by his mother. 

 He was intended for the law, but after receiv- 

 ing a classical education, passed a year in a 

 counting-room in Philadelphia ; assisted Wilson, 

 the ornithologist, in the preparation of the 

 plates to the first four volumes of his work ; 

 and about his nineteenth year embarked in the 

 manufacture of iron in the western part of 

 Pennsylvania. In 1816 he married the daugh- 

 ter of a retired German merchant, then resid- 

 ing in Baltimore. The iron business was pros- 

 trated by the peace in 1815, and a year after 

 his marriage (1817) he quitted it bankrupt in 

 property. After six months' study, he was 

 admitted to the bar in Pittsburgh, but in 1823, 

 left the bar for the ministry, and in 1824 be- 

 came the Rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh. 

 A new building being needed, he became its 

 architect, studying Gothic architecture for the 

 purpose. In the Diocesan Convention of 1827, 

 he was a prominent candidate for the oflBce of 

 Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania, the mem- 

 bers being equally divided between him and 

 Dr. H. U. Onderdonk, and Mr. Hopkins's own 

 vote securing the election of the latter. In 

 1831 Mr. Hopkins accepted a call to Trinity 

 Church, Boston, as assistant minister. A theo- 

 logical seminary was at that time established 

 in the Diocese of Massachusetts, in which he 

 became Professor of Systematic Divinity. In 

 the spring of 1832 he was elected the first 

 Bishop of the separate Diocese of Vermont, 

 and at the same time accepted the rectorship 

 of St. Paul's Church, Burlington. He soon 

 began a boys' school, which enabled him to 

 give remunerative employment to a large num- 

 ber of candidates for orders. In erecting the 

 needed buildings for the accommodation of 

 this growing establishment, he became in- 

 volved to a degree which resulted in the sac- 

 rifice of his property, and an amount of debt 

 which it was not in his power to cancel for 

 many years. He resigned his rectorship in 

 1856, in order that he might devote himself 

 more unreservedly to the work of the diocese, 

 and the building up of the Vermont Episcopal 

 Institute at Burlington. Bishop Hopkins was 

 a diligent writer, and published many volumes, 

 among which may be mentioned " Christianity 

 Vindicated in a Series of Seven Discourses on 

 the External Evidences of the New Testa- 



HOWELL, ROBERT B. 0. 



ment ; " " The Primitive Church compared with 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Pres- 

 ent Day;" "The Primitive Creed Examined 

 and Explained ; " " Essay on Gothic Architec- 

 ture ; " " History of the Confessional ; " " The 

 American Citizen, his Rights and Duties;" 

 and " A Refutation of Milner's End of Contro- 

 versy, in a Series of Letters," two vols., pub- 

 lished in 1854. His first work was published 

 in 1833, and his last in the last year of his 

 life. In the early part of the war he published 

 a work in defence of slavery, which was much 

 spoken of at the time, because of the source from 

 which it emanated. One of his latest works 

 was a " Church History in Verse," published 

 last year, but this hardly reached the dignity 

 of poetry. Bishop Hopkins was present at 

 the Pan- Anglican Synod at Lambeth, in which 

 he took a prominent part. While abroad the 

 degree of D. 0. L. was conferred upon him by 

 the University of Oxford. He had but recently 

 returned to this country, and his diocese, at his 

 his death. In the dissension dividing the Epis- 

 copal Church, Bishop Hopkins was a decided 

 champion of the High Church party, and re- 

 fused to sign the famous protest of the bishops 

 last year against High Church practices. 



HO WELL, ROBEET BOTTE CEAWFOED, D. D., 

 a Baptist clergyman and author, born in Wayne, 

 County, N. 0., March 10, 1801 ; died in Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., April 5, 1868. His early religious 

 and literary training was imparted to a consid- 

 erable extent by his mother, and supplemented 

 by such schools as existed in the neighborhood 

 of his father's plantation on the Neuse River ; 

 but he was a diligent student, and having, quali- 

 fied himself to enter Columbian College, Wash- 

 ington, D. C., in 1822, he graduated in 1826 with 

 the highest honors of his class, having, in ad- 

 dition to the usual college studies, prosecuted 

 successfully those pertaining to medicine and 

 theology. He was then, as always afterward, 

 intensely rapid in his mental action, and his 

 facility in the acquisition of knowledge was 

 very great. 



During his college course he found time for 

 performing considerable missionary and Sun- 

 day-school lab or in Washington and its vicinity, 

 and almost immediately after his graduation was 

 licensed to preach, and labored as a domestic 

 missionary under the direction of the Baptist 

 General Association of Virginia. In January, 

 1827, he accepted a call from the Cumberland 

 Street Baptist church, Norfolk, Va., and 

 was ordained there on the 27th of January. 

 His pastorate of somewhat more than eight 

 years at Norfolk was eminently successful, an4 

 when he removed thence to Nashville, Tenn., 

 it was only because there seemed a wider door 

 of usefulness there. The First Baptist Church 

 in Nashville, of which he became pastor, had 

 been almost broken up by the course pursued 

 and doctrines taught by Rev. Alexander Camp- 

 bell, D. D., the founder of the "Disciples," 

 but, through Mr. Ho well's energy and earnest 

 labor, it was united and became a powerful 



