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L. Hirsch, real estate dealer and insurance agent, at Newport, Ark. The principal necessity to the success of the real estate business, the safest and surest form of investment, is to have reliable agents, who are thoroughly posted on their city and locality, and the town of Newport has found such a man in the person of Mr. Hirsch, who is one of the largest land-holders in the county, being the owner of about 2,000 acres of real estate, and fifteen valuable lots in the town of Newport. In connection with this work he is engaged in the insurance business, and represents the following companies: The Hartford, Phoenix, Orient, Etna, of Hartford, Conn.; the Springfield, of Springfield, Mass.; the Phoenix, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; the Anglo-Nevada, Union, Commercial and California, of the State of California; the Lancashire and North British and Mercantile, of England; the New Orleans Insurance Association, Crescent, Southern, Hibernia, Sun Mutual, and Mechanics and Traders, of New Orleans, La.; the Fire Association, of Philadelphia; the Arkansas Fire, of Little Rock, Ark.; the East Texas, of Tyler, Tex.; the Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of New York, and the Fidelity and Casualty Company (Accident), also of that city. Mr. Hirsch was born in Batesville, Ark., on the 9th of August, 1855, and is a son of Aaron and Amelia (Blochman) Hirsch, the former a native of France, and the latter of Heidelburg, Germany. While Aaron Hirsch was still a single man, he took passage on board a vessel bound for the United States, and, after reaching this country, gradually drifted to the State of Tennessee, where he was afterward married. In 1853 he removed to Arkansas, locating near Batesville, where he opened a mercantile establishment, and conducted business here and in Jacksonport for many years. L. Hirsch, the subject of this memoir, made his home in Batesville until 1862, then removed with his parents to New Orleans, making that city his home until 1870. Four years later he returned to Newport and established a mercantile store, under the firm name of A. Hirsch & Son, but in 1878 this partnership was dissolved, and the firm name became L. Hirsch & Co., and remained such until 1880. At this date Mr. Hirsch sold out to Wolf & Goldman, and embarked in his present business, and up to 1885 was associated with H. L. Remmel, but in that year he purchased Mr. Remmel’s interest, and continued alone until January, 1889, when he gave an interest to his younger brother, Ralph, and the firm is now Hirsch & Bro. He is also treasurer of the Newport Water & Irrigating Company, and has full control of the plumbing department. He is secretary of the White River Telephone Company; is secretary and manager of the White River Ice Manufacturing Company, and is a director of the Newport Compress & Storage Company, now being organized. He is a member in good standing of the Masonic fraternity, belongs to the K. of P., and is treasurer of the latter organization. He has also held the offices of city treasurer and recorder, and has been deputy sheriff and deputy clerk. He is one of the ablest young business men in Jackson County, and in all enterprises of a worthy character he has been the first to identify himself and take an interest in their successful establishment. Miss Nettie Stafford, a native of Virginia, became his wife in September, 1884, and their union was blessed in the birth of two children: Irving S. and Eugene A.