Background
He was born in 1823 in New York to an immigrant from England.
New Jersey politician Mayor of Jersey City
He was born in 1823 in New York to an immigrant from England.
He worked as a clerk in a dry goods store. He moved to Jersey City, New Jersey in 1840 and set up his own dry goods store. Gopsill became the president of the Hudson Insurance Company and founded the Children"s Home for Orphans.
In the 1860s, he began publishing city directories.
He is the grandfather of Assemblyman Thomas Gopsill.
Gopsill was a delegate from New Jersey at the 1868 Republican National Convention in Chicago and a member of the Republican National Committee from New Jersey from 1868 to 1872.