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Hoppin was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1820. He was the youngest son of Colonel Benjamin Hoppin and Esther Phillips (Warner) Hoppin. His grandfather, Benjamin Hoppin, served as a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary Army. A brother, William Warner Hoppin, graduated from Yale College in 1828 and became governor of Rhode Island; and a first cousin, Augustus Hoppin, attained some note as an illustrator.
James Mason Hoppin prepared for Yale College and took his degree with the class of 1840. He was first attracted to law and received the degree of bachelor of laws from the Harvard Law School in 1842. More and more, however, he had found himself drawn toward the ministry; and, turning aside from a calling in which he might have had a brilliant career, he spent two years at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, a third at Andover Seminary, and a fourth at the University of Berlin. Here he won the esteem of his instructors, notably that of Professor Neander. His account of some of his experiences of this period was published as Notes of a Theological Student (1854). His years of study were followed by extensive travels, especially in Germany, Palestine, and Greece. He was fascinated by the realm of art but did not permit himself to be distracted from his main interest.
He was ordained to the Christian ministry, March 27, 1850, and installed as pastor of the Crombie Street Congregational Church in Salem, Massachussets, which he served until May 1859. On leaving Salem, Hoppin spent fifteen more happy months in Europe. In 1861 he returned to accept the chair of homiletics and pastoral charge in the Yale Divinity School, a position which he held until 1879. During the first two years he was called upon to share with President Woolsey, Professor (afterward President) Dwight, and Professor George P. Fisher, the work of preaching in the College Chapel, and his services among the churches were in constant demand.
His success as a speaker and teacher won him an invitation from the Yale Law School to lecture on forensic eloquence from 1872 to 1875, and in 1880 Union Theological Seminary counted him among its instructors. The literary fruitage of these years may be found in The Office and Work of the Christian Ministry (1869), a work which he later rewrote and enlarged, issuing it in two volumes, Homiletics (1881) and Pastoral Theology (1884). Two biographies also came from his pen: the Life of Rear-Admiral Andrew Hull Foote (1874), and a Memoir of Henry Armitt Brown (1880). Later he issued some of his characteristic utterances under the title Sermons on Faith, Hope and Love (1891).
During these years his interest in art became so absorbing that in 1879 he left the Divinity School to accept a professorship in the history of art in the Yale School of Fine Arts. That chair he held for twenty years, becoming professor emeritus in 1899. The change of occupation did not mean a lessening interest in religion; for according to his theory art is a great moral influence, a power by which men may bring in the reign of truth and of light. He soon won high rank in his new field, proving himself to be an authority in the subjects which he taught, a wise and discerning critic, and a true artist in all save the manual skill which expresses itself in form and color. Some of his publications in this field are The Early Renaissance, and Other Essays on Art Subjects (1892); Greek Art on Greek Soil (1897); and Great Epochs in Art History (1901). He delved deeply into Greek thought, publishing his Notes on Aristotle's Ethics (1882) and annotating copiously an interleaved copy of Riddle's edition of Plato's Apology. His broad interests had led him to publish in 1867 a volume on Old England; its Art, Scenery and People, of which the twelfth edition appeared in 1893. His last book was The Reading of Shakespeare (1906), issued in the last year of his life. Besides these publications he contributed many articles to various magazines – the Forum, the Bibliotheca Sacra, the New Englander, the Congregationalist, and others.
He died at his home in New Haven in his eighty-seventh year. By his will he left generous bequests to the Yale Foreign Missionary Society and to the Yale School of Fine Arts for the endowment of a chair in architecture.
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He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
On June 13, 1850, he married Mary Deming Perkins, daughter of Charles and Clarissa (Deming) Perkins of Litchfield, Connecticut. Two sons were born to them.
