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SOURCE: History of Lapeer County, Michigan
        with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
        of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
        H.R. Page & Co., Chicago, 1884
        

         Page 43
         
              
              JOHN HOPKINS was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in May,
         1797.  He was bred a farmer, and has followed that occupation.
         In 1833 he came to Almont and entered eighty acres of land in
         section 35.  He now owns 320 acres, viz: west half of the south-
         west quarter of section 25; southeast quarter of section 26;
         northwest quarter of northeast quarter and northeast quarter
         of northwest quarter of section 35.  He was married in 1833
         to JANET HAMILTON, who died in 1868.  His second wife, to
         whom he was married in 1870, was JANET ROBERTSON, by whom he
         has one child.  Of the first wife's children, four are living,
         and three have died.
         
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