1. Prynce Hopkins, who was born Prince Charles Hopkins, was an American Socialist, pacifist, philanthropist, and author of numerous psychology books and periodicals.
24 Facts About Prynce Hopkins
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Prynce Hopkins was jailed and fined for his strident anti-war views, pro-union activities, and investigated for his associations with such social reformers as Upton Sinclair and Emma Goldman.
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Prynce Hopkins, christened Prince Charles Hopkins, was born March 5,1885, in Oakland, California, to Charles and Mary Hopkins.
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Prynce Hopkins used his money to fund leftist causes, which he labeled the "uplift movement," and to self-publish books on psychoanalysis, social reform, and religion.
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Prynce Hopkins founded and headed a school on his property near Santa Barbara, California, called "Boyland," which employed the Montessori method of education.
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Prynce Hopkins was known for his unorthodox approach to social reform.
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Similarly, these interests resulted in Prynce Hopkins publishing and editing - with the collaboration of Sydney Greenbie - a little magazine titled The Germ which subsequently changed its title to Dawn.
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In 1912, Prynce Hopkins opened a progressive boys' boarding school called Boyland on his property in the hills above Santa Barbara.
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Prynce Hopkins worked with anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman for the anti-war organization League for Amnesty of Political Prisoners.
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When Goldman was imprisoned for her anti-war activities, Prynce Hopkins became chairman of the League.
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Prynce Hopkins was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Prynce Hopkins's arrest was based less on spying and more for impeding Army recruiting.
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The United States Department of Justice continued to investigate Prynce Hopkins and read his mail throughout 1918 and most of 1919, but no further action was taken.
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Prynce Hopkins closed Boyland and founded a similar institution in France.
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On January 12,1921, while still in exile in Europe, Prynce Hopkins married Eileen Maud Thomas of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, at St Peter's Church in London before embarking on a six-month honeymoon around the world.
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In 1929, Eileen divorced Prynce Hopkins and married a "former suitor," Vernon Armitage.
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Two years later, in 1945, Prynce Hopkins ran for the Democratic office of state Representative.
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Prynce Hopkins left Pasadena to live with his aging mother in Santa Barbara; and Fay married Stephen Enke in 1949.
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Prynce Hopkins hosted his children and grandchildren, international friends, and meetings of the World Federalists and Ethical Culture Society in the modern home he built in Santa Barbara after his mother's death in 1955.
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Prynce Hopkins died in Santa Barbara on August 16,1970, at the age of 85 after returning from a solo trip to the World's Fair in Japan.
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Prynce Hopkins authored the book Gone Up in Smoke: An Analysis of Tobaccoism, in 1948.
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Prynce Hopkins was an early observer to warn the public of medical and social problems associated with tobacco.
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Prynce Hopkins documented the shortened life and diseases caused by smoking.
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At age 21, Prynce Hopkins visited the Battle Creek Sanitarium for his father's treatment in 1906 when Kellogg was the medical superintendent.