Col. Hopkins Died in East May 11, 1904

THE CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR
May 11, 1904

NEWS BLURBS
scans from newspaper collection of
Ruth Adams-Battle

transcribed by Gloria Buckle

Col. Hopkins Died in East
Body of Former Cincinnatian to Be Buried Here.


The body of Col. L. C. Hopkins, a former resident of Cincinnati, who died Monday at Englewood, N.J., will arrive here to-night for burial Wednesday in Spring Grove. Col. Hopkins was the president of the first Board of Health of Cincinnati and was a member of the U. S. Sanitary commission. He was for eight years president of the Harmonie society, which it is said, originated the May festivals, it being a coincident that the festival will open on the day of his funeral. He was long a drygoods merchant in this city and during the war supplied the army with goods. Afterwards he went into the real estate business and founded Elmwood and Norwood and presented Hopkins park to the city. He then engaged in the insurance business in New York, where he took an active interest in Republican politics. F. W. Hopkins of New York is his son, and L. G. Hopkins of this city is his nephew.





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