Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1889

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 403
JOSEPH ERSKIN HOOPES, of the firm of Hahn, Hoopes & Co., growers and shippers of Muscatine Island vegetables, melons and sweet potatoes, is a native of Pennsylvania. He is the third son of Lindley and Mary ( Addleman ) Hoopes, of Lake Township, whose sketch appears on another page of this work. Joseph was born on the 4th of April, 1853, in Cambria County, on the summit of the Alleghany Mountains, near where the Pennsylvania Central Railroad crosses, during a temporary residence of his parents at that place. The family came to Iowa in 1854, and in 1856 settled in Lake Township, Muscatine County, where Joseph was reared under the invigorating and healthy influences of farm life, receiving a district school education. In the winter of 1874-75 he taught school. after which he attended the Commercial College in Muscatine. Deciding to become a horticulturist he formed a partnership in the fall of 1875 with his brother William H. for that purpose, which was dissolved by mutual consent on Jan.1, 1889. During the fourteen years of this partnership they were members of the different firms of Middleton and Hoopes, Middleton, Hoopes & Holcomb and W. H. Hoopes & Bro. He is now connected with the firm of Hahn, Hoopes & Co., consisting of John, George and Henry Hahn, Joseph E., and Emerson G Hoopes, and J. C. Shipley, with their office at No. 113 West Front street. He resides on his farm of fifty acres, situated in the southwestern part of the city, on the celebrated Muscatine Island.

On the 6th of February, 1884, our subject was married to Miss May O. Walton, the third daughter of Josiah P. and Mary E. ( Barrows ) Walton, whose biography appears in another part of this book. One daughter, Amy W., brightens their home. Mrs. May O. Hoopes was born and reared in Muscatine, and is a graduate of the city High School of the class of ' 79. Our subject and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is now officiating as Steward, Chorister, teacher of Bible Class, Trustee and local preacher. Socially he belongs to the order of Maccabees. In politics he is a Republican.

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