People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — HOLLINGSWORTH & HOPKINS [ARTICLE]

HOLLINGSWORTH & HOPKINS

The firm of Hollingsworth & Hopkins may be called the latest edition, or succession, of a firm organized April 1, 1887, under the firm name of Hammond & Austin, consisting of Hon. Edwin P. Hammond and William 13. Austin. Judge Hammond served thirteen years as judge of the thirtieth judicial circuit of Indiana. He was appointed to succeed Judge Woods on the supreme bench of the state, his term of office expiring in 1886. William B. Austin one of the best known business men in this part of the state,' is a graduate of Wabash college and also of the Union College of Law. For several years he was a member of the firm of Thompson & Bro. In 1887 the firm of Hammond & Austin was formed and they enjoyed one of the largest law practices in northern Indiana In 1890 Judges Hammond was re elected Judge of the thirtieth judicial circuit and retired from the firm. The business was continued by Wm. B. Austin and Arthur H. Hopkins under the firm name of Austin & Hopkins. In March 1898 George K. Hollingsworth entered the firm and the name was changed to Austin & Co. In April, 1895, the firm name was changed to Austin, Hollingsworth & Co., more as a matter of convenience than for any other cause, as Mr. Hopkins was a resident of Chicago, where he had moved in April, 1893, to take charge of the branch of the business which had been opened there. » In December last Mr. Austin retired, and the firm name was changed to Hollingsworth & Hopkins, and the business is conducted as before at the old stand in the corner rooms in the Leopold block. Mr. Hollingsworth has never taken any training in the legal profession, but looks after the brokerage and general financial part of the business. Mr. Hopkins took a course of instruction under J udge Hammond and served two years as deputy prosecuting attorney for Jasper county. The present firm are young men of ability, industry and foresight, and the extensive business to which they have succeeded, will be pushed forward as vigorously as ever. They are both members of the/ Masonic fraternity, and take great interest in its work and general welfare. They have an extensive acquaintance in this part of the state, both of a social and business nature, which draws their business from adjoining towns and counties. While their business career has been comparatively short, they have shown a marked ability in every thing they have undertaken, and we prophesy that their future will be no less promising than their past has been successful.