Milton hopkins biography

Milton W. Hopkins, the son of Hezekiah and Eunice Hubbell Hopkins, was born on 1 August 1789 in Harwinton, Connecticut. In 1800 the family moved to Clinton, New York. In 1807 he returned to Connecticut, soon marrying Abigail Pollard of Guilford, with whom he had a child.

After Abigail's death in 1817, he wed Almira Adkins and moved to Evans Mill, New York.

Milton hopkins biography

The births of nine children followed. His occupation during the late teens and early twenties is unknown, but his acquisition of several acres of land suggests he may have farmed.

By September 1824, when he advertised in the Newport (New York) Patriot, Hopkins was engaged in house and sign painting, gilding, glazing, chair-making, and selling painting supplies.

The previous year he and his family had moved to Newport, renamed Albion in 1826. For a short time in 1828 he served as captain on an Albion canal boat, but by December of that year he was in Richmond, Virginia. His advertisement in the Richmond Constitutional Whig on 16 D