Hopkins, Josiah, Dd

Hopkins, Josiah, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born at Pittsford, Vermont, April 26, 1785. He never attended college, though he had a good academical education. He was licensed by the Paulet Congregatinal Association in 1809, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in New Haven, Vermont, in 1811. He subsequently became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Auburn, N.Y. He died at Geneva, June 27, 1862. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1863, page 298.