John Riley Hopkins Family papers, 1830-1915 (bulk 1865-1900).

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John Riley Hopkins Family papers, 1830-1915 (bulk 1865-1900).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145567718

Most of the material in the collection was written or collected by the Hopkins family and includes personal and business correspondence, Confederate records, estate papers for several Hopkins family members and Samuel Turner, daybooks, personal and legal papers, speeches, tracts, songs, poems, anecdotes, and church records. A large portion of the collection deals with manufacturing and construction businesses in which Hopkins had an interest. Notable are specifications for houses and bridges and design drawings with specifications for various inventions. Includes a letter by Rufus Bullock, ex-governor, and records of the Beaver Ruin Academy, the Cotton Gin and Machine Fire Insurance Company, the Sacred Harp Singing Association, and the Sweetwater Primitive Baptist Church, and the Yellow River Primitive Baptist Association, all in Gwinnett County.

1.25 cubic ft. (34 folders)

Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6837383

Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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Sacred Harp Singing Association (Gwinnett County, Ga.)

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Sweetwater Primitive Baptist Church (Gwinnett County, Ga.)

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Cotton Gin and Machine Fire Insurance Company (Gwinnett County, Ga.)

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Yellow River Primitive Baptist Association (Gwinnett County, Ga.)

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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 t...

Turner, Samuel, d. 1892.

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Bullock, Rufus B. (Rufus Brown), 1834-1907

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Rufus Brown Bullock was born in Bethlehem, Albany Co., N. Y. He supervised building of telegraph line between N.Y. and the South and in 1859 was employed by the Adams Express Company (later Southern Express Company), and moved to Augusta, Ga. During the Civil War, he remained in Georgia, becoming a telegraph expert for the Confederacy. After the war he returned to Augusta and resumed his duties at Southern Express company and was also president of the Macon & Augusta Railroad. In 1868 he was...

Beaver Ruin Academy (Gwinnett County, Ga.)

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