Frank E. Hopkins

Frank Easton Hopkins (March 30, 1863 – February 26, 1933) was an American church music composer, book printer, and politician from New York.

Life

Hopkins was born on March 30, 1863, in New York City. He graduated from Boston University in 1887.

For many years, Hopkins worked as a book designer for De Vinne Press.{{Cite news|date=28 February 1933|title=Frank E. Hopkins|volume=LXXXII|page=19|work=The New York Times|issue=27429|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/02/28/119090964.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0}} In 1896, he established his own printing company, the Marion Press, in Jamaica, Queens. He named it after his daughter, Marion Day.{{Cite book|last=Hopkins|first=Frank Easton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QL8tAAAAYAAJ|title=A List of Books Printed at the Marion Press, Jamaica, Queensborough, New-York, 1896-1906|date=April 1907|publisher=The Marion Press|location=Jamaica, Queens, N.Y.|pages=5–7|language=en}} He also was an organist and choirmaster of the Grace Episcopal Church, and wrote choir music. He was an active freemason, and served as master and organist of the Jamaica Lodge.

Hopkins was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the New York's 2nd congressional district in the 1912,{{Cite book|last=Murlin|first=Edgar L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lBdk7DQqWkwC|title=The New York Red Book|publisher=J. B. Lyon Company|year=1913|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=672|language=en}} 1914,{{Cite book|last=Murlin|first=Edgar L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uDg4tWRGpmYC|title=The New York Red Book|publisher=J. B. Lyon Company|year=1915|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=707|language=en}} 1922,{{Cite book|last=Malcolm|first=James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kndIAAAAYAAJ|title=The New York Red Book|publisher=J. B. Lyon Company|year=1923|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=533|language=en}} and 1924 United States House of Representatives elections.{{Cite web|title=NY District 2 Race - Nov 04, 1924|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=376717|access-date=2020-09-30|website=Our Campaigns}} In 1916, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the Queens County 4th District. He served in the Assembly in 1917{{Cite book|last=Malcom|first=James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3FIAAAAYAAJ|title=The New York Red Book|publisher=J. B. Lyon Company|year=1917|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=174|language=en}} and 1919.{{Cite book|last=Malcolm|first=James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cfXcB1aRKyMC|title=The New York Red Book|publisher=J. B. Lyon Company|year=1919|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=154–155|language=en}}

Hopkins died in Topeka, Kansas, on February 26, 1933. He went to Topeka with his wife to visit their daughter and for health reasons.{{Cite news|date=28 February 1933|title=Frank E. Hopkins, Jamaica Organist|volume=92|page=15|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|issue=58|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60284122/frank-e-hopkins-obituary/}} He was buried in Grace Episcopal Churchyard in Jamaica, Queens.

References

External links

[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hopkins.html#530.73.03 The Political Graveyard]
[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68374084/frank-easton-hopkins Frank E. Hopkins] at Find a Grave

{{succession box

| title = New York State Assembly
Queens County, 4th District

| years = 1917

| before = George E. Polhemus

| after = L. Eugene Decker

}}

{{succession box

| title = New York State Assembly
Queens County, 4th District

| years = 1919

| before = L. Eugene Decker

| after = Nicholas M. Pette

}}