Biography of 	Joseph N. Wolfson, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller September 2000

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Joseph N. Wolfson, attorney, New Orleans, La. Mr. Wolfson, a prominent attorney of New Orleans,
owes his nativity to Compti, La., his birth occurring March 29, 1858.  He is the son of Jacob
A. and Caroline (Lorch) Wolfson, the former having also been a prominent attorney.  Before the
war the father had been a very successful merchant at Natchitoches parish, but at the age of
sixty-two years he turned his attention to law, distinguishing himself at the bar.  He died at
the age of seventy-eight years.  Our subject's maternal grandfather, Alexander Lorch, came to
the United States from Germany, and was also a lawyer of no mean ability of both his native and
adopted countries.  Joseph N. Wolfson received his collegiate training in the best schools of
northern Louisiana, and between the age of eighteen and twenty-nine years he was engaged in
merchandising.  He had a natural aptitude for the practice of law, however, and entered into
the practice of the same while yet a merchant and before he had made it a study.  In 1884 he
began the study of law under the Hon. J. D. Watkins, and afterward completed a law course in
Tulane university, graduating in 1885.  Since that time he has practiced constantly in New
Orleans, La.  He makes a specialty of commercial and insurance law, and has been very
successful in damage suits.  In politics he is a stanch democrat and has ever advocated the
principles of that party.  He is a member of the various Jewish orders of the city, a prominent
Mason and Knight of Pythias, and a liberal contributor to all public enterprises.  He was
married March 31, 1886, to Miss Esther Dinkelspiel, of New Orleans, and this union has been
blessed by the birth of two children--a son and a daughter.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 463.  Published by the
Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.