Born in
Villenova, New York, Hopkins graduated from
Alfred University in
Alfred, New York. He taught school, and engaged in mercantile pursuits in
Troy, Pennsylvania. In 1867, he moved to
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the lumber business. Hopkins was elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1894. He resumed his lumber manufacturing pursuits. Appointed as the state forestry commissioner from 1899 to 1904, Hopkins also served as a delegate to the
1900 and
1904 Republican National Conventions. ==Death==