My Genealogy Hound

NEWELL P. HOPSON, a business man of extended experience and at present engaged in grape growing on a large scale, is a son of Nelson and Marilla (Fuller) Hopson and was born in Chautauqua town and county, February 18th, 1855. Nelson Hopson was born in this county in 1832 and has always lived in Chautauqua town, followed farming and made it a success. He is now in his fifty-ninth year and belongs to the Mayville Methodist Episcopal church. Politically he is a prohibitionist and takes more than a passing interest in improving the strength and standing of the third party movement. He married Marilla Fuller, who is also a native of this county, is now in her sixty-second year and is a member of the same church to which her husband belongs.

Newell P. Hopson was reared in the town of Chautauqua, spending his youthful days upon his father’s farm. He acquired such education as the district schools could impart and was then sent to the Fredonia Normal school for a higher education. After leaving school he engaged as a clerk in a grocery store and staid in Fredonia two years and from there went to Mayville and spent a like period as a salesman of pianos and organs for five years. Following this, Mr. Hopson began dealing in stock, prior to 1890, buying and shipping large quantities. The last named year was spent in Canada, where he ran an ice business, but the fall of that year saw his return to the United States, and, in partnership with his brother, Harry B. Hopson, bought a farm of eighty acres, two miles east of Westfield on the main road, which they are transforming into a large and magnificent vineyard.

He was wedded to Jennie Munger, a daughter of G. W. Munger, who lives in the town of Portland, in 1879 and they have two very bright and promising sons: Harry M. and C. Wilson.

Mr. Hopson is an enthusiastic democrat and delights in his party’s success. In business matters he is enterprising and of strict probity.