Mark Hopkins (February 4, 1802-June 17, 1887) was an American educator and theologian. Great-nephew of the theologian Samuel Hopkins, Mark Hopkins born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1824 at Williams College, where he was a tutor in 1825-1827, and where in 1830, after having graduated in the previous year at the Berkshire Medical College at Pittsfield, he became professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric. Wikipedia
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