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Charlotte Everett Hopkins

Charlotte Everett Wise Hopkins (June 7, 1851 – September 6, 1935) was an American philanthropist and social reformer. She was president of the Home for Incurables in Washington, D.C. for over forty years.

Charlotte Everett Hopkins
An older white woman with white hair in an updo, from a 1936 publication
Charlotte Everett Hopkins, from a 1936 publication
Born
Charlotte Everett Wise

June 7, 1851
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedSeptember 6, 1935(1935-09-06) (aged 84)
Gloucester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)Philanthropist, social reformer
SpouseArchibald Hopkins
Parent
RelativesEdward Everett (grandfather)
William Everett (uncle)
Peter Chardon Brooks (great-grandfather)
Mark Hopkins (father-in-law)
Henry Hopkins (brother-in-law)

Early life and education edit

Charlotte Everett Wise was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Henry Augustus Wise and Charlotte Brooks Everett Wise.[1][2] Her father was a captain in the United States Navy. Her grandfather Edward Everett was governor of Massachusetts and United States Secretary of State;[3] her uncle William Everett was head of Adams Academy. Her maternal great-grandfather was Massachusetts businessman Peter Chardon Brooks.[4]

Career edit

Hopkins was "one of Washington's most public-spirited and philanthropic women."[5] She was president of the nonsectarian Home for Incurables in Washington, D.C. for over forty years,[6][7] and served on the board of the United States Hospital for the Insane.[2] She was vice-president of the Monday Evening Club.[8] She led fundraising for the Ellen Wilson Memorial Homes, a planned housing renewal project in Washington.[9][10] Despite some public interest in 1914,[11][12] the plan was shelved. During World War I, Hopkins was chair of the Woman's Department of the National Civic Federation, District of Columbia Section, and worked on coordinating women's war relief efforts,[13] for example collecting donations of linen for surgical use,[14] or providing family assistance for the dependents of military personnel.[15]

In March 1933, in her eighties, she gave new First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt a tour of Washington's neighborhoods, and is credited with helping to create the Alley Dwelling Authority in 1934, to improve sanitation and housing in the city.[16][10]

Hopkins was president of the George Washington Memorial Association,[17] and vice-president of the Washington Animal Rescue League.[18] She donated her uncle William Everett's papers to the Massachusetts Historical Society.[19] After her husband died, she donated a Confederate sword that he had kept from the war, to the Confederate Museum in Richmond.[20]

Publications edit

  • "A Report Concerning the Colored Women of the South" (1896, with Elizabeth Christophers Kimball Hobson)[21]
  • "The Washington Alley Bill" (1914)[11]

Personal life and legacy edit

Wise married lawyer, writer, and Union Army veteran Archibald Hopkins in 1878.[9] Her husband's father was theologian Mark Hopkins, and his brother was pastor Henry Hopkins.[22] They had four children; a son died in 1889, and a daughter died in 1912.[4] Her husband died in 1926,[23] and she died in 1935, at the age of 84, in Gloucester, Massachusetts.[24] Her grave is with her husband's, in Arlington National Cemetery. The Library of Congress has the Charlotte Everett Hopkins Collection of National Civic Federation, Woman's Department, District of Columbia Section Records.[25]

References edit

  1. ^ Who's who in the Nation's Capital. Consolidated Publishing Company. 1926. p. 292.
  2. ^ a b United States Commission of Fine Arts (1973). Massachusetts Avenue Architecture. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 95.
  3. ^ Mason, Matthew (2016). Apostle of Union : a political biography of Edward Everett. Internet Archive. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-2860-8.
  4. ^ a b Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American commonwealth Company. 1914. p. 402.
  5. ^ "Meet as Sisters; Mme. Society Greets Women Who Toil". The Washington Post. 1909-03-20. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Memorial to Mrs. Hopkins; Board of Home for Incurables Proposes a Lasting Tribute". Evening star. 1936-02-13. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Home for Incurables Asks Thanksgiving Aid". Evening star. 1919-11-24. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "'Municipal Lodging House a Disgrace'". The Washington Times. 1915-05-18. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ a b Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1919). Who's who in America. A.N. Marquis. p. 1336.
  10. ^ a b Cook, Blanche Wiesen (2000-06-01). Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933-1938. Penguin. pp. 156–157, 188–189. ISBN 978-0-14-017894-4.
  11. ^ a b "Popular Interest in Memorial Plan; Model Homes Project in Honor of Mrs. Wilson". Evening star. 1915-03-13. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Planning to Honor Mrs. Ellen Wilson". Evening star. 1914-11-13. p. 16. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Women's War Work to Be Centralized". The Washington Herald. 1917-06-21. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Appeals for Old Linen for Surgical Bandages; Mrs. Hopkins Makes Collection in Washington to Help Care for the Wounded". Evening Star. 1914-12-31. p. 16. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Civic Associations Called to Discuss Guard Relief Plan". The Washington Times. 1916-06-22. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Binker, Mary Jo. "Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day": Causes". White House Historical Association. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  17. ^ "Women's Clubs". Truth. 1901-11-30. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Officers Chosen by Animal Rescue Body". The Washington Times. 1915-12-15. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ William Everett Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
  20. ^ "Returns Confederate Sword". The Roanoke Times. 1929-04-16. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ Hobson, Elizabeth Christophers Kimball; Hopkins, Charlotte Everett (1896). A Report Concerning the Colored Women of the South. Trustees [J. Murphy & Company, printers].
  22. ^ "Dr. Henry Hopkins Dies". The New York Times. 1908-08-19. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "Col. Hopkins Buried; Services Impressive". Evening star. 1926-06-21. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "Mrs. Charlotte E. Hopkins". Hartford Courant. 1935-09-08. p. 28. Retrieved 2023-09-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ Charlotte Everett Hopkins Collection of National Civic Federation, Woman's Department, District of Columbia Section Records, A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress.
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