HOPKINS, ESEK

(1718-1802), an American naval officer, 6. in Scituate, R.1.; appointed by Congre , 1775; First Commander-in-Chief of American navy with title of Admiral. He was dismi ed for allowing the ‘Glasgow’ to escape. “HOPKINS, JOHNS (1795-1873), an American capitalist and philanthropist,b. in Arundel County, Md. His father was a Quaker farmer, and until he was 17 the son remained at home, helping with the farm work. He then went to Baltimore and from a boy in a grocery store, worked his way up to succe as the head of a large wholesale grocery firm, retiring in 1847 with a large fortune. He gave over $4,000,000 toward the establishment of a free hospital, and in his will left $3,000,000 for the establishment of the Johns Hopkins University.