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Timothy Hopkins

1859 – January 1, 1936

Philanthropist

Had it not been for the famous family who adopted him, chances are Timothy Hopkins might never have become anyone important in California. Had it not been for Timothy Hopkins, one can only speculate how a map of the Peninsula would have looked and had it not been for Timothy Hopkins, one can only wonder how differently Stanford University could have become. Though his name is largely forgotten today, Timothy Hopkins had the honor of closely associating himself with two of the state’s best-known historical figures and built his own reputation because of it.