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James Mason HoppinD.D.
Born	(1820-01-17)January 17, 1820 Providence, Rhode Island
Died	November 15, 1906(1906-11-15) (aged 86) New Haven, Connecticut
Education	Yale College, B.A. (1840) Harvard Law School, LL.B. (1842) Andover Theological Seminary (1845)
Occupation(s)	Educator, writer
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James Mason Hoppin (January 17, 1820 – November 15, 1906) was an American educator and writer.

Biography

James Mason Hoppin was born at Providence, Rhode Island on January 17, 1820. He graduated from Yale College in 1840 (where he was a member of Skull and Bones,) from Harvard Law School in 1842, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1845. He studied for some time abroad; and was pastor of a Congregational church at Salem, Massachusetts from 1850 to 1859. From 1861 to 1879 he was professor of homiletics at Yale, where he was also professor of art history from 1879 to 1899, when he became professor emeritus. He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

He died in New Haven, Connecticut on November 15, 1906.

Selected writings

• Old England: Its Art, Scenery, and People (1857)
• The Office and Work of the Christian Ministry (1869)
• Life of Rear-Admiral Andrew Hull Foote (1874)
• The Early Renaissance and Other Essays on Art Subjects (1892)
• Greek Art on Greek Soil (1897)
• The Reading of Shakespeare (1904)

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "HOPPIN, James Mason". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

1. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. I. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 245. Retrieved April 12, 2021 – via Google Books.
2. Norton, Eliot (1897). The Harvard Law School. Harvard Law School. p. 66. Retrieved April 12, 2021 – via Google Books.
3. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
4. "Professor Emeritus at Yale Dead". Hartford Courant. New Haven. November 16, 1906. p. 13. Retrieved April 12, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

• Works by or about James Mason Hoppin at the Internet Archive

• Yale University faculty
• American religious writers
• Harvard Law School alumni
• Yale College alumni
• American Christian clergy
• 19th-century American Christian clergy
• 19th-century American non-fiction writers
• Writers from Providence, Rhode Island
• 1820 births
• 1906 deaths
• Burials at Grove Street Cemetery
• 20th-century American non-fiction writers
• 19th-century American male writers
• 20th-century American male writers
• American male non-fiction writers
• 19th-century American clergy
• Members of Skull and Bones
• Members of the American Philosophical Society