HOOTON,  Motti

Brigadier  General  United  States  Army;
bom  In  and  appointed  from  Pennsyl-
vania; First  Sergeant,  June  4,  1861;  Sec-
ond Laeutenant.  June  11.  1861;  Captain,
Oct.  16,  1861;  brevetted  Major  Volunteers,
March  13.  1866,  for  gallant  and  meritor-
ious services  in  the  Wilderness  campaign;
honorably  mustered  out,  June  13.  1864;
Second  Lieutenant  and  l<^rst  Lieutenam.
Thirteenth  Infantry.  Feb.  23.  1866;  trans-
ferred to  Thirty-first  Infantry.  Sept  21.
1866;  transferred  to  Twenty-second  In-
fantry, May  15,  1869;  Captain.  Aug.  5,
1872;  Major  Twenty-fifth  Infantry,  May
1,  1896;  Lieutenant  Colonel  Fifth  Infan-
try, Oct.  4,  1898;  Colonel  Twenty-eighth
Infantry.  Feb.  2,  1901;  Brigadier  General,
April  15,  1902;  brevetted  Major,  Feb.  27.
1890,  for  gallant  services  in  action  against
Indians  at  Spring  Creek,  Mont..  Oct.  15
and  16,  1876;  retired.  April  16.  1902.  Ad-
dress. South  Bethlehem,  Pa.
HOPKINS,  Albert  Col«t

Merchant  and  Congressman;  bom  In
Vlllenovla,  N.  T..  Sept.  15,  1887;  edu-
cated in  Forestvllle  and  at  the  West-
field  Academy  and  the  Alfred  Uni-
versity. New  York,  graduating  in
1856.  Entering  the  mercantile  business
as  an  employe,  he  removed  to  Troy,  Pa.,
In  1862,  and  engaged  in  business  with
G.  D.  Long,  under  the  firm  name  ot  Long
&  Hopkins.  In  1867  failing  health  In-
duced him  to  remove  to  Lock  Haven,
where  he  engaged  in  a  small  way  in  the
lumbering  business;  his  business  rapidly
Increased  until  he  has  become  one  of  the
largest  manufacturers  of  lumber  in  Penn-
sylvania; the  firm  in  which  he  is  senior
partner  does  a  very  extensive  business
in  the  woodland  district  of  Clinton,  Cam-
bria. Clearfield  and  Jefferson  Counties.
He  has  also  large  Interests  in  Michigan
and  Pacific  coast  lumber,  and  is  largely
engaged  in  the  cattle  trade  in  Kansas.
