Hollace Lincoln Hopkins Biography


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				HOLLACE LINCOLN HOPKINS. 

	Hollace Lincoln Hopkins, owner of the Security Bank at Clark, has 
been identified with financial interests in the state since 1888. He 
was born in Orion township, Olmsted county, Minnesota, January 3, 1864, 
and comes of English ancestry, being only three generations removed 
from England in the paternal line. His parents are George Edwin and 
Caroline (Cudney) Hopkins, aged respectively seventy-eight and seventy-
four years. 

	In the country schools of his native county Hollace L. Hopkins 
began his education, which he continued in the village school of 
Estelline, South Dakota, in the high school of Brookings and in the 
State College at Brookings, but he did not graduate therefrom. In his 
early manhood he became connected with newspaper publication and in 
May, 1888, established the Independent at Henry, which he published for 
about twelve years. He then turned his attention to the real-estate, 
farm loans and banking business, conducting activities along those 
lines at Henry, at Watertown, at Brookings and at Clark. He is now 
owner of the Security Bank at Clark, to which he gives the major part 
of his attention. He also has extensive holdings of farm lands. He 
conducts the bank along safe, conservative lines, carrying on a general 
banking business, and the thorough reliability of his methods is one of 
the strong elements in the growing success of this institution. 

	On the 2d of July, 1889, at Chatfield, Minnesota, Mr. Hopkins was 
united in marriage to Miss Eucie Plank, by whom he had four children, 
as follows: Leah J., who is twenty years of age; Caroline, a maiden of 
thirteen; Glenn Hollace, who passed away at the age of fifteen years; 
and Gail, who died when a youth of thirteen. 

	Mr. Hopkins has never had military experience, although he 
received military training while attending the State College at 
Brookings. In politics he has always been an earliest republican, has 
frequently been a delegate to the state conventions of his party and on 
several occasions has served as secretary. He was also secretary of the 
famous prohibition convention at Huron, South Dakota in 1889. In 1896 
he received appointment to the office of postmaster at Henry and filled 
that position for eight years or until 1904. He was also chief clerk of 
the house of representatives at Pierre in 1895, and in every possible 
way he promotes the legitimate success of his party because of his firm 
belief in its principles. A Mason of high rank, he is a past master of 
the lodge, a high priest of the chapter, a~grand high priest of the 
grand chapter, a past commander of the Knight Templar commandery and is 
also a thiry second degree Mason of the Scottish Rite and a member of 
the Mystic Shrine. His religious belief is that of the Methodist 
Episcopal church and to its teachings he is consistently loyal. In a 
word, he is interested in the material, political, social and moral 
progress of the community in which he lives and his aid and influence 
are always on the side of right and advancement.