Background
Armstrong-Hopkins, George Franklin was born on March 25, 1855 in Farmington, Delaware, United States. Son of John and Mary A. (Taylor) Hopkins.
Armstrong-Hopkins, George Franklin was born on March 25, 1855 in Farmington, Delaware, United States. Son of John and Mary A. (Taylor) Hopkins.
Graduate Wilmington Conference Academy, 1880. Dickinson College (class poet), 1883, A.M., 1886.
2d, Karachi, India, April 4, 1893, Saleni Armstrong, M.D. Entered Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1884. Pastor Hurlock Methodist Episcopal Church, 1884-1886. Pastor home mission, Dorchester Company, Maryland., organizing chs. and starting several church buildings (2 of which bear his name), 1887.
Sent as missionary to India, January 1, 1888. Pastor Cawnpore Methodist Episcopal Church and chaplain to the Scottish Rifles, British Army, under English government appointment, 1888-1889. Pastor Lucknow Methodist Episcopal Church, 1890-1891.
Pastor Jabalpore Methodist Episcopal Church, 1892. Mission work among English-speaking people of Basawal, and English soldiers of Hyderabad, Sindh, 1893. Returned to the United States, 1893.
Since then pastor in Omaha, Nebraska, Wilmington, Delaware, and elsewhere in Wilmington and Central New York Confs.
Member Theta Delta Chi.
Married 1st, Denton, Maryland., November 26, 1884, Kate B. Dixon (died September 8, 1889).