Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Sterne, Isaac 1839 - October 1872 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 20, 2004, 5:49 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) ISAAC STERNE was born at Babra, Kur Hessen, Germany, in 1839, and came to the United States in 1854. He at first made his home in New York, and then in Columbus, Ga., and at the outbreak of the Civil war became a member of the Second Georgia battalion of infantry, and entered into the Confederate army. He served in the army up to the battle of Gettysburg, upon the first day of which battle he was wounded in the leg and captured by the enemy. He was taken to a hospital in Maryland, from which he was soon released upon taking oath not again to take up arms against the Federal government. He then went to West Virginia embarked in business, in which he continued up to the close of the war. In 1865 he married, at Cincinnati, Fredericka Feibleman, a native of south Germany, born in 1844, at Rutzheim, and in 1866, he removed to Selma, Ala., where he became a wholesale grocer, but later he engaged in the crockery business, in which he continued until his ill health warned him to retire altogether from business. Notwithstanding his retirement, however, his health did not improve, and his death occurred in October, 1872. His widow still resides in Selma. He left three sons, all of whom are engaged in business at Selma, of whom mention is here introduced. He was a member of the congregation Mishkan Israel of Selma of the B'nai B'rith, and of the Masonic fraternity. The names of the sons are, Marcus L. Sterne, the eldest of the three, who is engaged in the wholesale dry goods business, as a member of the firm of M. L. Sterne & Co. at Selma, and who is a young man of excellent business qualities; Joseph J. Sterne, the second of the sons, and Samuel A. Sterne, the third, are associated together as business managers of the Selma Book company, and are of more than the usual business capacity. Joseph J. Sterne was born at Selma, July 31, 1837, and received at the Dallas academy and at the private school of Prof. Callaway, a liberal literary education. He became a dress goods salesman, and remained in this line for fourteen years at Selma, and, then became associated with his brother in the management of the Selma book company, which was organized as a stock company in April, 1891, with R. M. Nelson as president. He is a member of the Selma Advance lodge. No. 3, Knights of Pythias; of the congregation Mishkan Israel, and he is also prominent in several social organizations. Samuel A. Sterne was born at Selma, December 23, 1868, and was educated at the same school as his brother Joseph J. For ten years, he was teller in the Commercial National bank of Selma, which position he relinquished` in April, 1891, to become manager with his brother Joseph J. of the Selma book company, in which both the brothers are stockholders. He is agent of the insurance firm of R. M. Nelson and Samuel A. Sterne, Jr. He is also vice-president of the Selma branch of the Standard Building and Loan association of Montgomery. He is a member of the congregation Mishkan Israel at Selma, of the I. O. O. F., is chancellor commander of the Selma Advance lodge, No. 3, K. P.; of Elk lodge, No. 167, and by virtue of being the first esteemed lecturing knight, he is a member of the state grand lodge, of Elks of the state of Alabama. He is a member of the Central City Masonic lodge, and is acting senior deacon of Mohawk lodge of Red Men. Marcus L. Sterne was born at Leesburg, Ky., January 17, 1866. He was educated at Selma, and became a dry goods clerk, at the age of thirteen, with M. Meyer & Co. February 1, 1890, he became a member of the wholesale dry goods firm of M. L. Sterne & Co., of Selma, and is still a member of the firm. On July 6, 1890, he married Miss Rosene Rosenberger of Birmingham, Ala., and has one son. He is a member of the congregation. Mishkan Israel, of the I. O. B. B., and of the Knights of Pythias. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 918-919 Published by Brant & Fuller (1893) Madison, WI This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb