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Ruth Hoppin

Ruth Hoppin was an educator, botanist, and naturalist. Hoppin School in Three Rivers was named in her honor. S. I. Silliman in "St. Joseph in Homespun" called Hoppin, "St. Joseph County's greatest gift to the development of the State of Michigan." Ruth Hoppin came to Parkville in 1846 with her parents and always saw the area as her home. In an era when few went to high school and educated women were almost unheard of, she graduated Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio) in 1856.
She was perceptress and teacher at high schools in Three Rivers and Ann Arbor, and taught at Ypsilanti Normal School from 1867-1881. Hoppin was chair of Botany and Biology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1881-1884, and received a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1891. Hoppin came to southwest Missouri to recover from health problems, but while in the area she explored Sarcoxie Cave, then known as Day's Cave. She collected insects, mollusks, crustaceans (kres-`ta-shens), salamanders and a species of cavefish that up to that time had been undiscovered (Amblyopsis rosae).

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http://www.bransonplanner.org/fantasticcaverns/ozark_adventure/Ozark%20Adventure%20Fall%2010b.pdf
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