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Benjamin Hoppin (S&B 1872)

Educator. Author. Explorer. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Brothers in Unity. Phi Beta Kappa. Delta Kappa Epsilon.

Between 1892 and 1896 he made three journeys to the Arctic seas, the last one being with Peary in 1896.[4]

In 1879 he published a translation of Niebuhr’s Hero Stories, and he was the author of A Cruise with Lieutenant Peary to the Highlands of Greenland.[4]

Since 1880 his life had been spent in retirement. For the past thirty years he had lived at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, where he pursued a varied - course of study, embracing genealogy, Oriental languages, and history.[4]

Fall Term 1875 - He was a tutor at Yale during the fall term in 1875, but was obliged to give up his work on account of his health.[4]

Summer and Fall of 1874 he spent in travel. This was followed by a residence of five months in Leipsic. Subsequently he traveled in Palestine and Greece with his classmate, Theodore S. Woolsey (S&B 1872), returning to New Haven in August, 1875.[4]

After graduation he spent some time in the West with Professor Othniel C. Marsh in search of fossils, but early in 1873 entered the Yale School of Law. He went abroad in November of that year, and spent six months studying in Berlin and Leipsic, chiefly Greek philology under Ernst Curtius. [4]

1872 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

Benjamin Hoppin’s preparation for college was received at Dr. Russells Collegiate [Rusell Military Academy] and Commercial Institute and at the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven. In his Freshman year at Yale he was given a scholarship and a prize in mathematics. He was awarded two second prizes in English composition in Sophomore year, and a second college premium in the same subject in Senior year. His appointments were a Junior philosophical oration and a Senior high oration. He was a member of Brothers in Unity and Phi Beta Kappa, and was one of the Commencement speakers[4].

Died 2 June 1923, from Not Known. Age 72

Son of James Mason Hoppin (S&B 1840), brother of former Governor of Rhode Island William Warner Hoppin.[4]

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen

[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 75 / on the page 678.

[5] - James Mason Hoppin (S&B 1940 - Portrait