Isaac S. Hopkins

Isaac Stiles Hopkins (June 20, 1841 - February 3, 1914) was a former professor and the first President of Georgia Tech (1888 - 1896) as well as pastor of the First Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. [http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/FindingAids/?/MF058/full "Inventory of the Isaac S. Hopkins Papers, 1883", Georgia Tech Archives and Records Management] ]

Biography

Hopkins was born in Augusta, Georgia. He graduated from Emory College in 1859, and from Georgia Medical College in 1861. He returned to Emory to teach natural science, and then physics at Birmingham-Southern College (then known as Southern University), before returning to Emory and becoming vice president in 1882 and president in 1885. [http://emoryhistory.emory.edu/people/presidents/Hopkins.htm Emory History: Presidents: Isaac Hopkins] ]

Hopkins' interest in technological development led him to be chosen as the president of Georgia Tech, then called the Georgia School of Technology, in 1888. [http://www.library.gatech.edu/gtbuildings/hopkins.htm Georgia Tech history: the Hopkins Administration, 1885-1895] ] He also concurrently served as a professor in the School of Physics, and as a pastor of the [http://www.atlantafumc.net/ First United Methodist Church] . Hopkins resigned from Georgia Tech in 1896 to serve the church full time.

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