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Winthrop Hartly Hopson (Fayette County, Kentucky, minister. )

b. 1823-04-26 d. 1888-04-20

Fayette County, Kentucky, minister. Christian County, Kentucky, native. Married to Rebecca Parsons Hopson in Gasconade County, Missouri, on April 30, 1844. Married to Caroline Gray Parsons Hopson in Callaway County, Missouri, on March 9, 1848. Father of Sarah Frances Hopson. Married to Ella Chapel Hopson in Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, on September 30, 1850. Physician in Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, in 1848. Minister in Howard County, Missouri, in 1850. Minister in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1860. Arrested for Confederate sympathies in July 1862. Imprisoned at Johnson's Island from 1862 to 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, Howard County, p. 221B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 426.

Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, Callaway County.

Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, Gasconade County.

"Doct. Winthrop H. Hopson," Boon's Lick Times (Fayette, MO), March 25, 1848, p. 3.

"Dr. Winthrop Hopson," _Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), July 26, 1862, p. 3.

"Dr. W.H. Hopson Dead," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 21, 1888, p. 1.

"Married," Glasgow Weekly Times (Glasgow, MO), October 24, 1850, p. 2.

"Hopson, Winthrop Hartly," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. III, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 286.

Citation

Hopson, Winthrop Hartly. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214584 (November 12, 2026).

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