Biography

1838 - 12/05/1915

HOPKINS, Washington Webb, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, 1838 in Lancaster County, Pa.; A.B, A.M., Lafayette College, 1856; captain, Company G, 79th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1864); attorney (1857-1915); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1868; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1869); chief adviser and trustee, Tome School, Md.; elected, secretary and treasurer, Tome School; died, December 5, 1915 in Port Deposit, Cecil County, Maryland; interred, West Nottingham Cemetery, West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland.