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Johns Hopkins



Hopkins, Johns (1795–1873), U.S. financier and philanthropist. A Quaker, he made his fortune as a wholesale grocer. He bequeathed $7 million to endow Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

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