Hopkins Classical School Explained

The Hopkins Classical School (1839–1854) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a secondary school located near the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Dana Street. It received financial support from the bequest of Edward Hopkins.^{[1] [2] [3]} Staff included John Benjamin Henck.^[4] Students included George Martin Lane,^[5] William C. Lovering, James Mills Peirce,^[6] George D. Robinson,^[7] and William Robert Ware.^[8]

See also

• Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Massachusetts
• Hopkins School, New Haven, Connecticut

Notes and References

1. History of the Hopkins fund, grammar school and academy, in Hadley, Mass. The Amherst record press, 1890
2. Charles Pickering Bowditch. An account of the trust administered by the trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. University Press, 1889
3. Harvard Univ. Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins, 1700-1983.
4. Lamb's biographical dictionary of the United States. 1901
5. Goodwin. Memoir of George Martin Lane. Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1899
6. National cyclopedia of American biography. 1910
7. Political register and congressional directory: a statistical record of the federal officials, legislative, executive, and judicial, of the United States of America, 1776-1878. Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878
8. Universities and their sons. R. Herndon company, 1899