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J. B. Hirsch is a dealer in hardware, groceries and plantation supplies, at Newport, Ark., and is conducting a successful business. He was born in Batesville, Ark., November 25, 1861, but received his education in the cities of New Orleans and St. Louis, and from his earliest youth he has been familiar with the details of mercantile life. At the age of sixteen years he came with his father, A. Hirsch, to Newport, and began clerking in the latter’s mercantile establishment, continuing thus employed until 1881, when they formed a business partnership and continued under the firm name of A. Hirsch & Son, until January, 1889. At this date J. B. Hirsch purchased his father’s interest in the business, and began life on his own responsibility, and by honesty and fair dealing is doing an exceptionally prosperous business. His stock of goods is well selected, and in point of size is of fair proportions. For two years he was associated with Wolf, Goldman & Co., but thinking he could do better alone, this partnership was discontinued, and the result has proved that his judgment was sound. He is an intelligent and enterprising young man of business, and his future prospects are bright. He is a Mason and a member of the K. of P. His marriage with Miss Dora Pollock, of Little Rock, Ark., was consummated in September, 1888.