| [ catholic ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): benedict (새아이디다) 날 짜 (Date): 2004년 1월 6일 화요일 오전 09시 59분 56초 제 목(Title): Re: John Hopkins who was johns hopkins에 지금은 접속이 되네요. 아마도 성가책의 Johns(?) Hopkins와는 다른 인물일 것 같다는 생각이 듭니다.. 혹시 어떤 노래였는지 기억하신다면..한번 찾아보지요. Peabody와 절친한 사이였다는 (Peabody institute는 유명한 음대임다.) 내용이 있긴 하네요. =================== First things first: why the extra "S"? Because his first name was really a last name. Johns Hopkins' great-grandmother was Margaret Johns, the daughter of Richard Johns, owner of a 4,000-acre estate in Calvert County,d. Margaret Johns married Gerard Hopkins in 1700; one of their children was named Johns Hopkins. The second Johns Hopkins, grandson of the first, was born in 1795 on his family's tobacco plantation in southern Maryland. His formal education ended in r807, when his parents, devoutlQuakers, decided on the basis of religious conviction to free their slaves and put Johns and his brother to work in the fields. Johns left home at 17 for Baltimore and a job in business with an uncle, then established his own mercantile house at the age of 24. He was an important investor in the nation's first major railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, and became a director in 1847 and chairman of its finance committee in 1855. Hopkins never married; he may have been influenced in planning for his estate by a friend, philanthropist George Peabody, who had founded the Peabody Institute in Baltimore in 1857. In 1867, Hopiins arranged for the incorporationaof The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and for the appointment of a 12-member board of trustees for each. He died on Christmas Eve 1873, leaving $7 million to be divided equally betleen the two institutions. It was, at the time, the largest philanthropic bequest in U.S. history. maOffice of News and Information The Johns Hopkinsniversity |