A chapter of Hopkins genealogy. 1735-1905

1905·13.5 MB·English

by  Harrison, Ella Warren, 1851-1937

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VI. TOF.L WILLIS HOPKINS.
CHAPTER
A
OF
HOPKINS GENEALOGY
CHICAGO
THE LAKESIDE PRESS
1905

The genealogist can not long remain a mere compiler of
family statistics. In following back the currents which have
united in his own life he finds himself traveling from one town
to another of colonial America and he is brought into vital or
accidental relation with many important events of American
history.
Dotted through the desert of historyhe findsoases where his
own peopleencamped,wheretheydid greatdeeds,orat leastsaw
great deeds performed and lent the influence of their presence.
"Land where myfathersdied,land of the pilgrims' pride"means
something for the man who is aquainted with his ancestors
which it never can mean for the man who does not know his
own grandparents, but has a vague idea that he isanAmerican.
BENEDICT
ELLA WARREN HARRISON
COMPILER
ARCHIBALD WILSON HOPKINS
PUBLISHER