Hopkins, Caleb

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb_Hopkins_(Upper_Canada_politician)
  • Wiki Biography:
    • Caleb Hopkins (June 10, 1786 – October 8, 1880) was a farmer and Reform politician in Upper Canada and later in the Province of Canada.
    • Hopkins was born in Frankford, New Jersey in 1785. His father, Captain Silas Hopkins, was a Loyalist who had been imprisoned for three years and fined £1,000 by American authorities for his loyalty to the Crown. The family emigrated to Upper Canada in 1801, settling on land overlooking Burlington Bay. (The area was later incorporated as Nelson Township in Halton County.) With his brothers, he founded a settlement called Hannahville (named for his wife, Hannah; later known as Nelson, Ontario), helped to set up the first school in the area, and chaired the first township meeting for Nelson Township in 1836. He married Hannah Green, and was a prominent layman in the Wesleyan Methodist Church.
    • During the War of 1812, Hopkins served for a short time as a private with an Upper Canada militia unit, the 5th Lincoln Regiment, 2nd Flank Company, employed building a barracks.
  • Son of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=3935
  • Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173083003/caleb-hopkins