J. F. HOPKINS

HOPKINS, STYLES

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/14/2009 at 20:23:15

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

J. F. HOPKINS, farmer and stock dealer, Sec. 1; P.O. Unionville; born in Claiborne Co., Tenn., in 1827; removed to this county in 1849, where he owns 330 acres of land, valued at $15 per acre. Married Miss Maria Styles in 1853; she was born in Ohio in 1833; they have ten children - Allen, Albert, Joseph, Charles, Alice, Laura B., Amanda, Marshall, Alpheus and Frank. Democratic. Has been dealing in stock for six or seven years past, shipping an average of fifteen cars per year.