Abner Crump Hopkins

Background

Hopkins, Abner Crump was born on October 24, 1835 in Powhatan County, Virginia, United States. Son of Henry Laurens and Sarah Amelia (Crump) Hopkins.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Hampden-Sidney College, 1855, Doctor of Divinity, 1883. Taught school 2 years. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, 1860.

Career

Pastor Presbyterian church, Martinsburg, Virginia, 1860-1862. Chaplain 2d Virginia Infantry, Stonewall brigade, C.S.A., 1862, 64. Chaplain on staff General John B. Gordon, 1864-1865, at Appomattox, C. H., Virginia.

Pastor Willis Church, Virginia, 1865-1866, Charlestown Presbyterian Church, West Virginia, since 1866.

Chairman many committees of General Assembly of Synod of Virginia (moderator, 1881). Member General Assemblies Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1875, 81, 82, 98, 1903, 04, 06 (moderator, 1903, Lexington, Virginia).

Member Pan-Presbyterian Council, Toronto, Canada, 1892.

Achievements

• Abner Crump Hopkins has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member General Assemblies Presbyterian Member Pan-Presbyterian

Connections

Married Anne Pleasants Atkinson, May 16, 1861.

Father:

Henry Laurens Hopkins

Mother:

Sarah Amelia (Crump) Hopkins

Spouse:

Anne Pleasants Atkinson