Hopkins, John Riley, 1835-1909.
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Hopkins, John Riley, 1835-1909.
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Hopkins, John Riley, 1835-1909.
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John Riley Hopkins, the son of George Harrison and Lucinda Turner Hopkins, was a schoolteacher, landowner, political aspirant, inventor, businessman, lawyer, and prominent citizen of Gwinnett Co., GA, for the last half of the 19th Century. During the Civil War he was superintendent of the Confederate niter works in Alabama. After the war he returned to Norcross, GA, to pursue his diverse personal and business interests: he operated sawmills, cotton gins, and lathe shops; ran unsuccessfully for the state legislature; and took an active part in the Sweetwater Primitive Baptist Church.
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Gwinnett County (Ga.)
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Gwinnett County (Ga.)
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