John Hopley (editor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Hopley (editor)

Newspaper editor and publisher

Date of Birth: 21-May-1821

Place of Birth: Whitstable, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 03-Jun-1904

Profession: newspaper editor, newspaper proprietor

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About John Hopley (editor)

  • John Prat Hopley (May 21, 1821 – June 3, 1904) was a British-American attorney and newspaperman, known as one of Ohio's most influential publishers.
  • He was editor and publisher of the Bucyrus Journal in Bucyrus, Ohio, for nearly 50 years.Hopley was born in Whitstable, Kent, to Edward and Catherine Cooper (Prat) Hopley.
  • His brother Edward became a noted artist, and his sister Catherine a noted author and naturalist.
  • He studied at the Royal Navy Academy at Camberwell, and in 1842 emigrated to America, first working for an uncle in Zanesville, Ohio, and later teaching in Logan.
  • He married Georgianna Rochester in 1848.
  • Shortly after his marriage, and desiring to study slavery and its influence upon the social life of the South, Hopley spent some years teaching in Tennessee and Kentucky.
  • In 1858 he and his family came to Bucyrus, where he was superintendent of public schools.
  • He was admitted to the bar in 1858 and practiced law until 1862, when he accepted a clerkship in the Treasury Department at Washington, later working in the office of Treasury Secretary Salmon P.
  • Chase.
  • He was afterward transferred to the Currency Bureau under Hugh McCulloch, and had charge of the statistical division.
  • In 1864 he resigned and worked for a New York City bank.
  • In 1866 he returned to Washington and was appointed examiner of National banks for the southern states and Kansas.
  • In September, 1867, he purchased an interest in the Bucyrus Journal and became its editor, in the following May becoming sole proprietor of the office.
  • He was appointed postmaster at Bucyrus in 1870 and held the position until 1879, and was reappointed in 1890, serving another four years.
  • He died at his home in Bucyrus on June 3, 1904, at the age of 84.

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