[3] Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1879, she was the daughter of Anson S. and Martha (Loath) Hopkins.

She graduated from Hyde Park High School (1895), receiving a prize in an oratorical contest; Oxford College, Ohio, A.B.

Delivered special lectures to senior girls at Rosemary Hall on "The Physiology of Life," June 1912 and 1913.

Wrote for various newspapers and publications, and addresses delivered in various places, notably article on the International Congress of Eugenics in London (Woman's Journal, September 1912).

Congregationalism member, Mothers' Club, Travel Club, Alliance Française, United Workers, Housewives' League, Consumers' League, Connecticut Society of Social Hygiene; visitor for Connecticut Children's Aid Society; chairman Emily Bruce House Committee; member Greenwich College Women's Club.