Thaddeus E. Hopkins

HOPKINS, FISH

Posted By: Allamakee county coordinator (email)
Date: 5/17/2004 at 07:09:10

Thaddeus E. Hopkins
Mr. Hopkins was born in Madison county, N.Y., November 21, 1849. His early life was spent in obtaining an education, by attending the public schools. He also took a course of instruction at Gilbertsville Academy. At the age of eighteen, he went to Allamakee County, Iowa, where he followed farming the succeeding five years. He then removed to Independence, Buchanan Co., Iowa, were he learned the art of photography. In 1878, he left Independence, and emigrated to Colorado Springs, and has since been engaged in the photograph business. Mr. Hopkins was married in February, 1871, to Miss Lizzie Fish, of Lansing, Iowa.

-source: History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado; Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1881; El Paso County; pg. 457