L. G. Hopkins

Lewis Gilbert Hopkins was a partner in the real estate firm Bofinger & Hopkins. They developed several subdivisions in what was to become the City of Norwood. Some of their early Norwood real estate projects were the properties of L. C. Hopkins.

L.G. Hopkins was not a resident of Norwood. According to his death notice in the Wednesday, November 17, 1937, edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer, he was the widower of Lenora Burr Hopkins. He died at his home on St. James Avenue, Cincinnati, on November 15, 1937.

It has been written that he may have been Lewis C. Hopkins' nephew. The 1869 Cincinnati directory lists L. G. as a clerk at the L. C. Hopkins & Co. dry goods store at 4th & Race. Although L. C. Hopkins had sold this business the previous year, it kept his name and, apparently, his supposed nephew as an employee. L. C. and L. G. were associated in real estate operations in Norwood as well as other Greater Cincinnati neighborhoods. The Bofinger & Hopkins Company was a real estate business of L. G. Hopkins.