Background
Hopkins, Alphonso Alva was born on March 27, 1843 in Burlington Flats, New York, United States. Son of Alvah and Mercy (Hale) Hopkins.
Hopkins, Alphonso Alva was born on March 27, 1843 in Burlington Flats, New York, United States. Son of Alvah and Mercy (Hale) Hopkins.
Academic education; Doctor of Philosophy, American Temperance U., Tennessee, 1895.
Editor Rural New Yorker, American Rural Home and American Reformer, 1867-1885. Was vice chancellor and professor political economy, American Temperance U., 3 years Lecturer on literature, temperance and economics topics, since 1868. Prohibition candidate for government New York, 1882.
Author: Geraldine (a novel in verse, first published anonymously), 1882. His Prison Bars, 1878. Sinner and Saint, 1880.
Life of General Clinton B. Fisk, 1888. Wealth and Waste, 1896. Ballads of Brotherhood, 1900.
Profit and Loss in Man, 1909. The Bugle of Right, 1913. Editor The National Advocate.
On editorial staff Funk & Wagnalls Company Address: Cliffside, New Jersey.
Married Adelia R. Allyn, 1867. Married second, Emma M. Santee, 1897.