Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . offices of the company, and in 1880 was made aconductor of passenger trains, a position he heldfor six years. He resigned to become associatedwith his father, who was general agent of the StateMutual Life Assurance Company, with offices at240 Main street, later in the Burnside building andfinally to the present quarters in the new StateMutual building. He remained with his father un-til his death, December 28, 1904. He was electedtreasure
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . offices of the company, and in 1880 was made aconductor of passenger trains, a position he heldfor six years. He resigned to become associatedwith his father, who was general agent of the StateMutual Life Assurance Company, with offices at240 Main street, later in the Burnside building andfinally to the present quarters in the new StateMutual building. He remained with his father un-til his death, December 28, 1904. He was electedtreasurer of the Worcester Association of Life Un-derwriters, a position he held to the time of hisdeath. He attended All Saints Protestant Church,Worcester. He was a Republican in politics. Hewas made a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, FreeMasons, April 12, 1889; Eureka Chapter, RoyalArch Masons, June 4, 1889; Worcester County Com-mandery. Knights Templar, September 20, 1889. Hewas a member of Company C, Second Regiment,Massachusetts Volunteer Alilitia, Worcester LightInfantry, from December 2, 1879, to December,1882. He was at one time a member of the .\rling-. C^- v^ c/d^/^^^^A) WORCESTER COUNTY 421 ton Social Club and for a miinber of years itspresident. He also belonged to tlie Tatassit CanofClub and the Uptown Club. He married, October 5, 1893, and had one child,Sarah iM., born in Worcester, May 14, 1901. died in the very prime of life, cuttingshort a promising career in business. He had thenatural ability and the personal magnetism thatmakes a man especially successful in the insurancebusiness. He attracted friends by his voice andmanners, was social, sympathetic and generous, andhis death was universally regretted. (IX) Edward Earle Hopkins, son of FrederickFerdinand Hopkins (8), was born at Colchester,Connecticut, August 26, i860. He received his earlyeducation in the Worcester public schools, gradu-ating from the Classical high school in 1878. Whilestill in school he
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