Bio: Jacob Brooks Herold; Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000





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Jacob Brooks Herold is a Shreveport attorney with offices in the
Ricou-Brewster Building, has lived in that city practically all his life, is
widely known in this state and elsewhere as a legal author, and many regard
him as one of the most forceful, gifted men in practice in his home city.

He is a son of Herman and Fannie (Brooks) Herold, his father born in Bavaria,
Germany, December 13, 1836, and his mother, a native of Caldwell, New Jersey. 
His parents were married at Niagara Falls, New York, October 10, 1869, and
after a brief residence in Chicago, established their home in Shreveport
December 1, 1869.

Jacob Brooks Herold was reared in Shreveport, attending primary, grammar and
high schools of that city.  After completing his high school course in 1904 he
attended Tulane University one year, and in 1905 entered Harvard University,
America's oldest institution of higher learning.  In 1908 he graduated with
the Bachelor of Arts degree, having with twelve other students out of a class
of approximately four hundred completed tine four years course in three years.

At the close of his university career Mr. Herold returned to Shreveport, and
for two years was employed by Herman Loeb in the cotton business.  He then
studied law in Alfred T. Land's law office, and in due time was admitted to
the bar of Louisiana.  His practice is of a general nature, but he is regarded
as an authority on many phases of civil law and commercial law.

Mr. Herold has compiled five law books, including three editions of his
"Interpretations of the Civil Code of Louisiana," the last edition, published
in l924, having had a very wide sale among time members of the bench and bar
of the state, and purchased by many law libraries outside the state.  His must
recent book is an annotated and indexed edition of the "Employers' Liability
Act of Louisiana."  He is the author of the edition of "The Laws of Louisiana
Relating to Banks, Savings Banks and Trust Companies," by W. L. Young and J.
B. Herold.  Attorneys and judges throughout Louisiana have commented in high
praise of Mr. Herold's ability as a legal writer and compiler.

As a matter of public spirited business Mr. Herold has also embarked in the
building program to supplement Shreveport's housing facilities.  He is a
member of the Elks Club of Shreveport and the Harvard Club of Louisiana.

NOTE:  The referenced source contains a black and white photograph of the
subject with his/her autograph.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 189-190, by Henry E. Chambers. 
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York,
1925.