Erasmus Guy Hopkins

Background

Hopkins, Erasmus Guy was born on April 9, 1877 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Erasmus and Ida Gayle (Rowe) Hopkins.

Education

Student Fredericksburg (Virginia) College, 1894-1896. Doctor of Medicine University College of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, 1899.

Career

Began practice at Richmond, 1899. City bacteriologist, 1906-1907. Pathologist Saint Luke’s Hospital, since 1907.

Associate professor pathology, 1913, professor clinical pathology, since 1917, director clinical laboratory, since 1913, Medical College of Virginia.

Director laboratories, Retreat for the Sick and Stuart Circle Hospitals, since 1921. Commissioned captain Medical corpus, United States army, August 23, 1917.

Major, February 17, 1919. Ordered active duty, September 28, 1917.

Chief of laboratory service at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, Base Hospital 45, American Expeditionary Force, in France, and at Justice Hospital Group, Toul, consecutively, December 6, 1917-January 31, 1919.

Honorary discharged, April 25, 1919.

Achievements

• Erasmus Guy Hopkins has been listed as a noteworthy physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Pauline Dudley Gary, December 27, 1905.

Father:

Erasmus Hopkins

Mother:

Ida Gayle (Rowe) Hopkins

Spouse:

Pauline Dudley Gary