Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Hood GILPIN
HOOD GILPIN was born at No.709 Walnut Street, which was NO.171, old style, on the north side of Walnut, above Seventh Street, in the Eighth Ward of Philadelphia, on October 19, 1853. His father was Charles Gilpin, of Wilmington, Delaware, later a prominent and useful citizen of Philadelphia, and his mother was Sarah Hamilton Hood, daughter of John McClellan Hood and Elizabeth Forepaugh, of Bessie Bell Farm, Limerick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. By his father he was descended from English Puritans, who became members of the Society of Friends and settled in 1696 at Chadd's Ford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and by his mother from German Lutherans and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, the latter of whom emigrated from Newton Stuart, County Tyrone, Ireland. He has never lived outside of the Seventh and Eighth wards of Philadelphia. The first school he attended was on the west side of Eighth Street, above Sansom, which was kept by an old schoolmaster named Eliphalet Roberts, whose boast it was that he had taught General Winfield Scott Hancock, when the General was a boy at Norristown, Pennsylvania. From there he went to a temporary school kept by Henry D. Gregory at NO.1108 Market Street, Philadelphia, and June, 1868, he entered the Freshman Class of the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Arts, then on the west side of Ninth Street above Chestnut. He graduated from here in June, 1872.
It is believed that this class of " '72 " is the only one which has kept up its organization and annual reunions from the date of its entering college to the present time. Mr. Gilpin had the honor of serving his class as its Secretary until the death of its first President, the late Henry C. Olmstead, whom he succeeded in the office of class President. Mr. Gilpin read law with his father for preceptor and was admitted to practice as an attorney in the District Court of Philadelphia, on December I, 1874, and in the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania on January 15, 1877.
On November 12, 1875, he was appointed Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and continued to hold that position until he resigned it on January 14, 1885. On January I, 1890, he was elected a School Director of the Eighth School Section of Philadelphia, and, on April 6, 1896, was elected President of the Board of Directors of the same section.
Mr. Gilpin has given his entire time since 1874 to the practice of his profession and does not permit himself to be attracted from its well settled paths, hoping by pursuing this course to give more satisfaction to himself and perhaps also to those of the public whom he serves.
He married on October 31, 1882, Emily Olivia, daughter of Oliver Hopkinson and Eliza Swaim, and has three children, Francis Hopkinson, Gabriella and Hood Gilpin, Jr., his wife being a lineal descendant of Thomas Hopkinson, Francis Hopkinson and Joseph Hopkinson, all well known in the political, literary, scientific and artistic history of Pennsylvania, and each in his time Judge, either of the Colonial Admiralty or its successor, the District Court of the United States, whose walls their pictured effigies adorn.
Mr. Gilpin is an honorary member of the member of the Law Association, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Union League of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Cricket Club and the Bank Clerks' Beneficial Association. He is also a Manager of the Apprentices' Library Company and the Philadelphia Charity; and is a Director of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company. Each of these interests receives his earnest attention, and it follows that Mr. Gilpin's life is a very busy and useful one.
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