Elijah E. was born; Hopkins was born the same day in Argyle, N. Y.

The evidence

• “Hopkins, known as one of Rock county's substantial farmers and representative citizens, was born in Argyle, N. Y., on March 31, 1848, to James and Ann (Ellis) Hopkins, both natives of New York state. When he was three years old, in 1851, his parents moved to Fulton township, in Rock county, and *!ettled on the place where they made their permanent home and”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 519 / book p. 1005

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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