Hopkins, Samuel H.

HOPKINS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 7/30/2008 at 13:59:38

Samuel H. Hopkins

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.101, Grove Twp.)
Samuel H. Hopkins, farmer, P. O. Macedonia, born in Michigan May 17, 1841, son of Samuel and Philancy (Holt) Hopkins, he, a carpenter, born in Vermont, died in Michigan in 1854; she, born in New York, died in Missouri in 1863. They had five children, two of whom are living. Subject received a common school education, commenced life as a farmer, and married Miss Emma Fayborn in Iowa, who was born in Ohio in 1848, and is the daughter of Wooster and Charlotte (McMillan) Fayborn; he born in Vermont, she in Ohio; both are still living. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins have had four children, viz., Flora G., Herbert L. (died in 1872); Edith J. and Ione, all born in this county. Subject has filled almost all the township offices at different timse, and enlisted in Company B, Fifth Iowa Cavalry in 1861; mustered out at Cairo, Ill., in 1863; was in several engagements in Kentucky and Tennessee; was wounded four times, and carries three balls in his body now. He is a Republican, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the M. P. Church; he moved from Michigan to Illinois about 1857, worked on the farm as a laborer until 1859, when he moved to this county working by the month until he enlisted; bought forty acres of land in 1863 at $7.50 per acre, and now owns eight acres in this township (Grove), valued at about $35 per acre; there are ten acres of natural timber and is well stocked.