Julius Levin, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

     JULIUS LEVIN is a native of Prussia; he was born at Regenwalde, July 7,
1833.  His parents are Jacob and Fannie (Daus) Levin, worthy people of the
same place.  He comes of a mercantile family, his sire and grandsire having
been successful and extensive merchants.  He grew to manhood in his native
city, and upon reaching a suitable age, he was placed at school at Deush
Crone, West Prussia, where he completed his literary training.  He left
school in his sixteenth year.  The sterling principles of the better class
of citizens of that country had been well and deeply inculcated in him, and
when he entered mercantile life, he determined to follow the honest and
lofty traditions of his race.  He first entered a dry goods establishment
at Stolp, and completed his knowledge of that calling at Hamburg.  In 1852
he came to the United States, spending one year in Galveston, Tex., and
Mississippi.  In 1853 he came to Alexandria, La., he at once went into
business, in which he was successful as well as popular, and when the Civil
War broke out, he had accumulated a handsome competency.  At his adopted
country's call, he laid aside all personal interests and joined the
Confederate Army.  From the close of the war until 1880, he carried on a
prosperous mercantile business, when he retired and invested his means in
lumber milling.  In this new business he again applied that close attention
and active mind which he had always made all his undertakings a certain
success, and today he has his place in the front rank of the lumber
manufacturers and dealers of the State.  He has an extensive yard and
planing mill in Alexandria, supplied by his sawmills on the north side of
Red River, and connected by switches to the main track of the Texas &
Pacific Railroad.  He is a large railroad supplier, as well as exporter of
Texas and the Indian Territory.  He was married in this city, to Miss
Christine Dupuy, a native of Louisiana, and a daughter of Nomine and Mary
Dupuy, also natives of this state; one son and four daughters have been
born to them:  Julia (wife of Charles Goldenberg), Fannie (wife of Augur
Suss), Jacob, Flora and Johanna (cricket).  Mr. Levin and family are
followers of the Jewish faith.  Mr. Levin has risen to the council of the
Masonic fraternity; he has been a member of the city council, was president
of the school board, and he has always been identified and one of the
leaders in all moves and organizations tending to improve and extend
Alexandria.  He is one of the original stockholders of the Rapides Bank.