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Joe B. Hopper
Joseph B. Hopper was born on May 17, 1921 in Kwangju, Korea. He was raised by his missionary parents in Korea. He entered Davidson College in North Carolina in 1938, graduating magna cum laude with a …
Read MoreScrounging in Korea
An unpublished chapter from the published Mission to Korea: Joe B. Hopper on the missionary's 'scrounge fever' and the three greatest hauls of his career.
Read MoreHunting in Korea
Two chapters cut from the published Mission to Korea: Joe B. Hopper's letters home about pheasant, goose, and deer hunting with his sons in 1950s and 60s South Korea — including the day a flock of generals' stars helicoptered in for a pheasant hunt.
Read MoreMary Jane Dunlap
Mary Jane Dunlap (1814–1906) was born on January 11, 1814, in Fayette County, Kentucky, the daughter of Major William Dunlap III and Oneida Green. She came from one of the oldest and most …
Read MoreThe Dunlap Presbyterian Lineage
Tracing the Dunlap family from a Covenanter minister in Scotland through seven generations to George Dunlap Hopper of Kentucky, and the strain of Presbyterianism that ran through them all.
Read MoreJ. Hershey Longenecker
J. Hershey Longenecker was born into a Mennonite family in Landisville, PA on May 23, 1889. He attended the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades near Philadelphia from 1907 to 1910 with hopes …
Read MoreJ. Hershey Longenecker’s 1911 Kentucky Journal
The daily journal of missionary J. Hershey Longenecker during his work building Beechwood Seminary in the Kentucky mountains, documenting his journey from tradesman to missionary.
Read MoreHow the Hoppers Became Presbyterian
How the Hopper family moved from Baptist roots to a Presbyterian legacy through the marriage of Joseph Hopper to Mary Jane Dunlap in 1840.
Read MoreHopper Day in Stanford, 1936
A special day celebrating the Hopper family at Stanford Presbyterian Church
Read MoreDorothy Longenecker Hopper
Dorothy “Dot” Longenecker Hopper was born March 26, 1920 in the Belgian Congo to Jay Hershey and Minnie Hauhart Longenecker. Dot grew up as a missionary kid in the Belgian Congo. She …
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