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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power
These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon
County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all
necessary research to document what is contained herein.
HOPPIN, FRANKLIN B.
, brother to Daniel and Charles T., was born May 18, 1815, in Madison county, N. Y., married there to Sarah McConnell, and had two children there.
He moved to Sangamon county and settled near his brothers, Charles T. and Daniel, adjoining Chatham on the southwest. Of his children -
SARAH, born in New York, raised in Sangamon county, married A. M. Garland. See his name.
FRANKLIN S., born in New York, raised in Sangamon county, married Sarah Pierce, and lives in Louisiana.
F. B. Hoppin died June, 1866, and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield. His widow resides with her daughter, Mrs. Garland, in Springfield.
The three Hoppin brothers and the McConnell brothers were among the earliest wool growers in Sangamon county. They prosecuted the business very extensively, from about 1840 until the close of the rebellion in 1865, when the business declined for a time.
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