HOPKINS, Samuel Miles, jurist, born in Salem, Connecticut, 9 May, 1772; died in Geneva, New York, 9 March, 1837. He was graduated at Yale in 1791, admitted co the bar in 1793, and began practice in Oxford, New York In 1794 he removed to New York city, where he became a successful lawyer. He served in congress as a representative from New York in 1813-'15. and was a member of the state house of representatives in 1820-'7. From 1821 to 1831 he resided in Albany, and from 1832 to 1836 he was a judge of the New York state circuit court. He received the degree of LL.D. from Yale in 1828. He published a volume of "Chancery Reports" (New York, 1827), various papers on the subjects of the state and national legislatures, crime, and prison discipline, and a treatise on "Temperance" (Geneva, 1836).--His son, Samuel Miles, clergyman, born in Geneseo, New York, 8 August, 1813, studied at Yale and at Amherst, where he was graduated in 1832, spent two years at Auburn theological seminary, and completed his course at Princeton in 1836. He was ordained in 1840, was pastor of Presbyterian churches at Corning, Fredonia, and Avon, and in 1847 became professor of ecclesiastical history and church polity in Auburn theological seminary. Amherst conferred the degree of D. D. on him in 1854. He published a "Manual of Church Polity" (Auburn, 1878), and "Liturgy and Book of Common Prayer" (New York, 1883).