Hopkins
Hopkins names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Hopkins JOHNS, an American philanthropist
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHNS, an American philanthropist; born in Anne Arundel co., parents, Quak- Md., May 19, 1795. His ers, gave him a fair education and the training of a farmer. At the age of 17, however, he went to Baltimore, there became a grocer, and in 1822 founded the house of Hopkins and Brothers. From the grocer's business he retired in 1847 with a large fortune, which he employed in banking and railway operations. In 1873 he gave property prope worth $4,500,000 to found a free hospital; he presented Baltimore with a public park, and he also gave over $3,000,000 to found the Johns Hopkins University in Balti- He died Dec. 24, 1873. more.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Johns, a Baltimore merchant. He was born May 19, 1795, in Anne Arundel. County, Maryland, and died at Baltimore, September 24, 1873. His father was a Quaker farmer. He engaged with his brothers in the wholesale grocery business and amassed a large fortune. In 1847 he withdrew from the trade and engaged in banking and in railroad financiering. During the last year of his life he gave $3,000,000 to found the University that bears his name, and $4,500,000 to establish a free hospital. Baltimore is also indebted to his liberality for a public park. See Peabody
Hopkins STEPHEN, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
STEPHEN, an American statesman; born in Providence, R. I., March 7, 1707. In 1732 he was elected a representative to the General Assembly from Scituate Scituate, and was chosen speaker of that body in 1741. In 1751 he was appointed chief-justice of the superior court of Rhode Island, and in 1756 was elected governor. He signed the Declaration of Independence. After this he was several times chosen a member of Congress. He died in Providence, July 13, 1785.
Hopkins MARK, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARK, an American educator; born in Stockbridge, Mass., Feb. 4, 1802. He was president of Williams College in 1836-1872, and for 30 years president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Among his works are "Evidences of Christianity"; "The Law of Love, and Love as a Law"; and "An Outline Study of Man." He died in Williamstown, Mass.. June 17, 1887.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 could describe Johns Hopkins only as the Quaker grocer whose $3,000,000 founded a university in 1876 and whose $4,500,000 opened a free hospital in 1889; both institutions are now global, the hospital repeatedly ranked first in the United States and the university receiving a $1.8 billion gift from Michael Bloomberg in 2018. The image of the abolitionist Quaker was overturned in December 2020, when researchers at the university announced that census records list enslaved people in Hopkins's own household in 1850. Note that Aiton's 1910 date of death, September 24, 1873, is wrong; Collier's December 24 is correct. The sketches of Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration, and Mark Hopkins of Williams College stand as written, though Mark Hopkins is now remembered less for his books than for Garfield's line about a log with a student on one end and Hopkins on the other.
Written for this edition, 2026.