History of Burlington Flats, (Otsego County) New York United States of America

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Alphonso Alva Hopkins - A Biography

Alphonso Alva Hopkins, author, was born at Burlington Flats, N.Y., March 27, 1843; son of Alvah and Mercy (Hale) Hopkins; grandson of Daniel Dewey and Harmonia (Babcock) Hopkins; great grandson of Stephen and Rhoda (Dewey) Hopkins, and a descendant of Stephen Hopkins, of Rhode Island. He received his education at Hamilton, N.Y., academy, engaged in newspaper work, and was editor of the Rural New Yorker, American Rural Home and American Reformer successively, 1867-85. He lectured on literary, temperance and economic topics from 1868; .was vice-chancellor and professor of political economy at the American Temperance university, Tennnessee, 1893-95, and received the degree of Ph.D. from there in 1895. He was prohibition candidate for governor of New York in 1882, and editor of the Defender, 1898-99; and is the author of: Asleep in the Sanctum and Other Poems (1876); His Prison Bars (1878); Our Sabbath Evening (1878); Waifs and Their Authors (1879); Geraldine (a novel in verse, published anonymously) (1882); Sinner and Saint (1883); Life of General Clinton B. Fisk (1888); Wealth and Waste (1895), and numerous prohibition pamphlets.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor