EDWARD LEOPOLD HOPKINS..
 

	Edward Leopold Hopkins is editor and proprietor of the Star City
Echo, and also proprietor of a stationery and book store. He was born in
Milton, Hampshire, South England, in March, 1867, a son of William and
Emily Julia (Peckham) Hopkins, the former a native of Beckley, Eng-
land, and the latter of Milton, England. The father conducted a mercan-
tile business in England throughout his life and was a prominent and
highly esteemed citizen of the community in which he resided. His death
occurred in February, 1901. Mrs. Hopkins is making her home in Hast-
ings, England.
	Edward Leopold Hopkins received his education in the Christ Church
school near Milton and subsequently learned the printer's trade in an
office at Bournemouth. He followed his trade there for some time and
then went to London, where he was thus engaged eight years. He went
into the printing business for himself in Bournemouth in 1895, thus con-
tinuing until 1911, when for two years he was secretary-treasurer of a
printing company there. In 1913 he came to Canada and located at Prince
Albert, conducting a job printing office until 1918, when he moved his
plant to Star City and started the Star City Echo. He has a modern and
splendidly equipped plant here and the paper has a circulation of five hun-
dred. Mr. Hopkins does job printing for the surrounding territory. In
1920 the building which he occupied burned and he was compelled to pur-
chase another one at once, so that his newspaper interests might continue
practically uninterrupted.
	In October, 1904, Mr. Hopkins was married to Miss Jemima Wood
Stanton and they have one child: Roma Edith Muriel, whose birth oc-
curred in November, 1909. In his political views Mr. Hopkins is a Liberal
and his religious faith is that of the Baptist church, but he affiliates with
the United church and was for some time one of the managers of the church. He holds membership in the Baptist church at Prince Albert.
	He has always been a zealous church worker and in the old country served
as superintendent of the Sunday school for fifteen years and twenty-
eight years in the Sunday School Union.

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