Evening star., 1926-06-19
HOPKINS FUNERAL
BEING arranged.
Services for Prominent D. c.
Citizen Take Place Mon.
day at Epiphany.

Funeral services for Col. Archibald
Hopkins. leader III civic, patriotic and
education.l work in this city, who died
at his residence. 1926 Massachusetts
avenue. Yesterday afternoon, will DC
conducted in the Church of the Epiph-
any. Episcopal. some time Monday,
the hour to be announced later. Rev.
Or. z. &. T. Phillips. rector, viii Of
ficiate. IIiterment will be in Airing.
ton Cemetery A list of pallbearers Is
to be announced later.
Col. Hopkins, who had been prom
inently identified in the National Cap
ital for more than half century.
served as chief clerk of the Court OF
Claims here for 81 years and was ac-
tive in various organization activities.
tle was the last surviving field Of
ficer of the 37th Massachusetts. Regi'
n;ent. which led the advance of the
Union Army at AppomattoX.
Volunteered i- Civil War.
Col. Hopkins, the son of Mark Hop
kins. former president of Williams
College. and Mary Hubbell Hopkins,
was born February 90, 1912, at VII.
Jamestown, Mass. He was the grand
son of Col. Mark Hopkins, who COM
manded the 1st Massachusetts in the
Revolution. He was graduated from
the college of which his father was
the head in 1862. Immediately after
he left for Pittsf1eld. Mass, where
he was commissioned lieutenant in
the 37th Massachusetts Volunteers.
He rose rapidly to the ranks OF cap.
tain, brevet.ma jor, lieutenant colonel
and colonel. 1S62-1s65. in the same
regiment, and Government officer
under the reconstruction acts. 1866.
Early in the war he served on the
staff of Gen. II. S. Briggs. He was in
the fighting at Winchester, Va. under
Gen. Sheridan After this engagement
his regiment. as the highest compli-
ment to his yalor. was detailed to pro-
vost duty in that town. Col. Hopkins
continued his service with his regi-
ment up to the fateful day that Lee
surrendered to Gen. Grant. During
this service he was cited for gallantry.
In reminiscing several years ago.
Col. Hopkins Is quoted as saying: I'VE
had all read and seen pictures Of the
formal surrender of captured armies,
and we expected that Lee and his vet
Grams would march out and lay down
their arms as CORVALLIS did at York
town. We thought II was due to our
long and arduous serviRe that we
should see its results. and when we
found we were to he about-faced and
marched northward. without even a
glimpse of our late enemies, there was
much murmurihg and discomfort. But
Gen. Grant was much wiser and
greater than all of US. He knew how
we felt, but he also knew that we and
the men of the South henceforth were
to be fellow countrymen again, and
f.s T. y
ject Lee and his army to any humilia-
tion that could be avoided. 1t was
evidence of true greatness, and we
see now that he was right
Studied at Columbia.
Following the war Col Hopkins
went to New York. where he studied
law at Columbia University. gradual
ing from there in 1857. He was ad-
mitted to the bar the same yeap. and
after practicing law there for six
years he came to this city. where he
has resided ever. since. He was ap-
pointed chief clerk of the Court of
Claims in 1873 and served in that
capacity until 1914, when he resigned.
Col Hopkins married Miss Char.
lotte Everett Wise, daughter of Capt.
Henry A. Wise, L. S. N, granddaugh-
u
Everett, and cousin of the Adams,
Brooks, rockingham and Hale fam
lilies so conspicuous in Massachu-
setts history The wedding took
place in this city, November IA, 1873.
His wife has played also a prominent
part with her husband in patriotic,
educational and civic affairs of this
city.
Col. Hopkins was a member of the
board of direc of the Garfield
Hospital. chairman of the Board of
Charities, member OF the
board of directors Of visitors of the
United States Military Academy.
delegate to the International Peace
trustee Of the Legal Aid
Society, vice president of the trustees
of George Washington University,
president of the District Society Of
the Sons of the Revolution and one
of its organizers here, director of the
Washington Society of Fine Arts,
of which he was one OF the organizers;
member Of the National Geogra plic
Society, member of the District His.
torical Society, member of the Amer.
lean Social Science Associa ton, men,
Der of the Washington Academy of
Sciences, chancellor of the District
Commandery of the Loyal Legion,
president of the williams College
Alumni Association, a founder and
vice president of the National Asso-
citation for Constitutional Government
and a member of the District HUI
name Society.
He was vice PRESIDENT of the Metro