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ED. W. HOPKINS
HOPKINS, ED. W., County Assessor for Los Angeles County, California. Born March 25, 1863, at Oskaloosa, Iowa, the son of John Y. Hopkins and Mary (Needham) Hopkins. He married Martha L. McVicker at Los Angeles, April 4, 1895, and is the father of six children: Mary, Ella, Ruth, John, Bessie and Helen Hopkins.
He received a common school education and in time took up reading of law and prepared himself for the Bar. He was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Iowa in the year 1887.
After getting his parchment he moved from Iowa to Kansas and there practiced his profession, but it did not yield much of a living in those days and he moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1889. There he obtained a position as traveling auditor and collector for a machine house and remained with that firm until he went to Los Angeles in 1891.
Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, Mr. Hopkins took up real estate, opening offices on West Fourth street. He later took into the firm a partner, and they maintained a profitable trade up to 1895, when Mr. Hopkins sold his share to accept an appointment as Deputy Assessor of Los Angeles County. While in the real estate business the firm handled a considerable amount of downtown property and his work in that line was crowned with success.
He held the position of Deputy Assessor for twelve years, and in 1907 Ben Ward, the Assessor made him Chief Deputy. That year Mr. Ward died and Mr. Hopkins was appointed County Assessor by the Board of Supervisors to fill the unexpired term of Ward. He was elected County Assessor in 1910, and has served nearly a year of his term.
Mr. Hopkins is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Mystic Shriner, Knight of Pythias and a member of Union League and City Clubs of Los Angeles.
Transcribed 1-14-10
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 367, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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