E. M. Bodenheimer, Bossier Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller



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E. M. Bodenheimer has been a resident of Shreveport for more than

half a century, and through most of those years has been closely

identified with the city's business and civic development.  He is

district manager for the Union Central Life Insurance Company, and

is the official head of one of the finest residential communities in the

State of Louisiana, the Town of South Highland, which adjoins

Shreveport on the south.



He was born on his father's plantation in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, in

1860.  His father, Jacob Bodenheimer, came from Germany in 1827

and was a substantial and thrifty pioneer in Northwest Louisiana.  He

died in 1866, and in the same year his widow with her family moved

to Shreveport.



E. M. Bodenheimer was six years of age when he came to

Shreveport, finished his education in the local schools, and for twenty

years was actively connected with the mercantile business.  For a

dozen years he has been engaged in the real estate and insurance

business, and has been responsible for the building up of a large

volume of insurance in force for the Union Central Life Insurance

Company of Cincinnati.



Upon the organization of South Highland as a village he was elected

the first mayor, and has held that office consecutively.  South

Highland is the home of some of the wealthy and most prominent

citizens of Shreveport.  It is a marvel municipality in point of

improvements as well as civic spirit.  The town has practically

completed a 100 per cent paving program at a cost of about half a

million dollars, and other features of the community are one of the

finest school buildings in the state, a beautiful public park, fine

artesian water supply.  Mr. Bodenheimer and family live in a beautiful

home at 815 Delaware Street, this being one of the first of the finer

residences that adorn South Highland.



Mr. Bodenheimer married Miss Bertha Levy, who is now deceased.

There are two sons, Dr. J. M. and G. M. Bodenheimer, and a

daughter, Mrs. Harriet Goldsmith.  Doctor Bodenheimer and wife

have two children, Elias and Bertha, and Mr. Bodenheimer has

another grandchild, Albert Goldsmith, a son of Mrs. Harriet

Goldsmith, who is a widow.  G. M. Bodenheimer has two children,

Berthold and G. M., Jr.  Mr. Bodenheimer is a member of the

Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and

also of the Chamber of Commerce and of B'nai Zion Congregation.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 142-143, by Henry E.

Chambers.  Published by The American Historical Society, Inc.,

Chicago and New York, 1925.