Charles W. Hopkins and Emelia Ashbaugh

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Husband Charles W. Hopkins ¹

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           Born: 10 Nov 1856 - Worcester, Worcestershire, England 2
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         Father: Robert Hopkins (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Evans (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 15 Nov 1894 4

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Stoker (      -1893) 5 - 1880 4

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Wife Emelia Ashbaugh ⁴

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Children

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1 M Earl Warden Hopkins ⁴

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           Born: 4 Aug 1895 4
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General Notes: Husband - Charles W. Hopkins

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He was born in Worcester, Worcestershire, England, and was educated in the Episcopal School of Sewickley, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Having attained a suitable age he learned the carpenter's trade, serving his apprenticeship with John McMillen, in Sewickley, but soon after qualifying as a journeyman became a passenger brakeman in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad, his run being on the Leetsdale accommodation. On May 23, 1879, Mr. Hopkins moved to Leetsdale, a town consisting at that time of but three houses, one of which was the residence of Mr. Hood, at that time station agent. He became baggage master on the local train on November 5, 1883, and four years later was promoted to the rank of passenger conductor on local trains running between Beaver Falls and Pittsburgh. He was advanced once more in July, 1901, and became a conductor on through trains running between Crestline and Pittsburgh. He did not entirely escape the dangers railroad men constantly braved, and in 1902 was severely injured in the Quaker Valley wreck that befell passenger train No. 5, in which several passengers were injured, his hurts being by far the worst. For three months he was confined to a cot in Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, and was unable to resume his duties for seventeen months. Mr. Hopkins' years in the railroad service number more than thirty-four, and during that time he became known as one of the most consistently reliable of employees, one who punctiliously observed all of the many regulations governing railroad traffic. In 1889 he erected a home at No. 98 Ella street, Leetsdale, facing the Pennsylvania Railroad station, and he was also the owner of four other Leetsdale properties. He served on the borough council beginning in 1908, being elected on a Citizen's ticket. His church was the Presbyterian, and he held membership in the Knights of the Maccabees and the Order of Railroad Conductors.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 340, 930.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 340.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 339.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 341.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 341, 930.