1847-1924

Adoniram Judson Hopkins

Baptist Pastor  Maine/Vermont ME/VT

Adoniram Judson Hopkins was born May 24, 1847, in Jefferson, ME, and graduated from Harvard University in 1874. The next year he began a four-year term as minister at the Baptist Church, Dunbarton, Merrimack County, NH, where he was ordained in 1876. From 1879 to 1883 he pastored the Baptist Church in Hopkinton, NH. Hopkins married Mary Cheney Martin and they had three children.

While pastor of the Baptist Church at Franklin Falls, NH, A. J. Hopkins delivered the annual sermon of the New Hampshire Baptist Convention. His next pulpit was 1887-91 at Georgetown in Essex County, Massachusetts, followed by a 15-year tenure as pastor with the Baptist congregation at North Uxbridge, MA.

His final calling was to the Baptist Church in 1906 at Perkinsville, VT, where he was also moderator of the Woodstock Association. The Perkinsville church had only 5 pastors in 40 years and A. J. Hopkins was one of those leaders. “The territory from which the church draws its members is not thickly populated….  It has been exceptionally free from occasions of discipline and has maintained a good degree of harmony.”[1]

Adoniram Judson Hopkins died in 1924 and is buried in Perkinsville, VT.

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[1] Henry Crocker, History of the Baptists in Vermont (Bellows Falls, VT: P.H. Goble Press, 1913), p 276.

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