Enos D. Hopping

Enos D. Hopping was a brigadier general in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War.

Biography

He was born in about 1805 to Jehiel Hopping and Harriet Mead.
A personal and political friend of Secretary of War William L. Marcy, Hopping was appointed a brigadier general in the Regular Army by President James K. Polk on March 3, 1847.
He was commanding a camp of instruction in northern Mexico when he died on September 1, 1847.