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Caption: Booklet - Memorial of Cyril George Hopkins (1919 Selections)
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• BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH | ^ J Y R I L G E O R G E H O P K I N S was born upon a farm HpS^ near Chatfield, Minnesota, on July 22, 1866. As a |?vb$ small child he moved with his parents to South 1» iKl Dakota, where, as he grew up, he lived the life of v?*?*! the pioneer. W h i l e teaching country school as a means of earning money for a college course, he nearly lost his life in a blizzard when caring for the children under his r charge, a loss he w ould have cheerfully met rather than abandon his duty, as his later life abundantly testified. He was graduated from South Dakota Agricultural College, at Brookings, in 1890, obtained his state teacher's certificate in 1891, earned his master's degree at Cornell in 1894, and his doctor's degree in 1898. A year later, 1899-1900, he studied agricultural chemistry at Gottingen. Doctor Hopkins began his college service immediately after graduation, serving as Assistant in Agricultural Chemistry in his Alma Mater from 1890-1892, then in Cornell during 18921893, returning to Brookings as Acting Professor of P h a r m a c y during 1893-1894. In May, 1893, he married E m m a Matilda Stelter, of Brookings. In the autumn of 1894, he was appointed Chemist of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Illinois. This responsible position he held continuously thereafter. In accepting the appointment, Doctor Hopkins made a reservation covering his purpose to work for the doctorate, and this he secured at Cornell four years later, offering as a thesis his famous treatise '"The Chemistry of the Corn Kernel/' reporting a piece of work which he had begun at the University of Illinois. 11 •
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