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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

ISAAC DREYFUSS.
    Isaac Dreyfuss is one of the pioneer merchants of Pine Bluff, where he is
conducting a well appointed department store. Enterprise and persistency of
purpose have actuated him in all of his business career and his success is the
merited reward of his labors. Mr. Dreyfuss is a native of Louisiana, his birth
having occurred in New Orleans in 1850, his parents being Isaac and Rosina
(Meyer) Dreyfuss. The parents were from Germany and on coming to the United
States settled in New Orleans, where the father engaged in merchandising.

    Isaac Dreyfuss, one of a family of four children, was educated in his native
city, after which he traveled through this section of the south. In 1869 he
located at Grand Lake, where he engaged in merchandising on his own account and
after eleven years there spent came to Pine Bluff in 1880. Here he opened a
small store on Barraque street and some time afterward established his store at
his present location. Here he founded the nucleus of what is now a large
department store, gradually adding different departments to the original store
until he is at the head of a very substantial commercial enterprise. He is one
of the oldest merchants in years of continuous connection with business in Pine
Bluff and his  slogan "your grandparents traded here" is literally true. His
lines are comprehensive in their scope, tasteful in selection and reasonable in
prices and his .patronage has steadily grown as the years have passed by. Mr.
Dreyfuss was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Simon of New Orleans, and their
children are: H. C., J. M., D. S. and Hattie. The son, D. S. Dreyfuss, served
with the Red Cross during the World war and was also at Camp Pike. The sons are
engaged in business with their father and are progressive young men, whose
enterprise and zeal are guided by the sound business judgment and experience of
the father, making this a strong combination. Mr. Dreyfuss certainly deserves
much credit for what he has accomplished as he started out in the business world
empty-handed and by persistent effort has made continued advancement, his labors
winning for him the just and merited reward of diligence and persistency of
purpose.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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