Johns Hopkins (1795 - 1873)

Born 19 May 1795 in Whitehall, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA

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Died 24 Dec 1873 at age 78 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Biography

Son of Samuel Hopkins (1759–1814) of Crofton, Maryland, and Hannah Janney (1774–1864), of Loudoun County, Virginia, Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland. His bequests founded numerous institutions bearing his name, including Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2020, "Historians for Johns Hopkins University discovered that the founder of the Baltimore-based school owned slaves, contrary to the long-held belief that the wealthy philanthropist was a staunch abolitionist."^[1]

Born on May 19, 1795 he was one of eleven children born to Samuel Hopkins (1759–1814) of Crofton, Maryland, and Hannah Janney (1774–1864), of Loudoun County, Virginia. His home was Whitehall, a 500-acre (two km²) tobacco plantation in Anne Arundel County. His first name was inherited from his grandfather Johns Hopkins who received his first name when his mother Margaret Johns married Gerard Hopkins. In 1812, at the age of 17, Hopkins left the plantation to work in his uncle Gerard Hopkins' Baltimore wholesale grocery business. While living with his uncle's family, Johns and his cousin, Elizabeth, fell in love; however, the Quaker taboo against marriage of first cousins was especially strong, and neither Johns nor Elizabeth ever married. John died on 24 Dec. 1873 in Baltimore, Maryland.^[2]

He is buried at Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA

Sources

1. ↑ Jaclyn Diaz. "Johns Hopkins, Long Believed An Abolitionist, Actually Owned Slaves, University Says" (NPR, 10 DEC 2020).
2. ↑ Johns Hopkins Wikipedia.

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