Biography of Isaac T. Hopper, by L.Maria Child

The Man of a Thousand Years, — ISAAC T. HOPPER — A True Life — by Lydia Maria Child This thrilling work is the biography of one of the most remarkable men the world has ever seen. His deeds of philanthropy and mercy, covering a period of nearly fourscore years, endeared him not only to the thousands who were the immediate participants of his beneficence, but to all who knew him…..  The article includes quotations from the New York Sun Times, the New York Observer, and the New York Tribune.

(Liberator, August 5, 1853, pg 3)