Ancestry of
Johns Hopkins

Founder of Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital

Johns Hopkins

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Hopkins 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Janney   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 May 1795 
  • Birth Location:
  • Whitehall Plantation, Anne Arundel County, Maryland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Dec 1873 
  • Death Location:
  • Baltimore, Maryland 
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  • Founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital and John Hopkins University

    In his will, Johns Hopkins asked that his estate be used to found two institutions that would bear his name, Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

• Sources for Johns Hopkins

  • ¹ Bulletin of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1917, Vol. 28, No. 317, pp. 225-229.
  • ² Publications of the Southern History Association, 1900, Vol. 4, p. 440.
  • ³ Summerfield, Carol and Mary Elizbeth Devine, eds., International Dictionary of University Histories, Chicago and London: Fitsroy Dearborn Publishers (1998), 228.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Johns Hopkins", (accessed 11/30/2016).