James Mason Hoppin

James Mason Hoppin D.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.

James Mason Hoppin was born at Providence, Rhode Island on January 17, 1820.^[1] He graduated from Yale College in 1840 (where he was a member of Skull and Bones,^[2]) 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.^[1] 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.^[3]

He died in New Haven, Connecticut on November 15, 1906.^[4]

• 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)

 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.

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