The Bernsteins
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483
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Henry Bernstein is one of the brilliant and promising young attorneys of the Pelican 
State.  He possesses advanced liberal and progressive ideas, and whilst pursuing the 
practices of his profession takes an active interest in every move that tends to the 
development of his state.  He was born in Winnfield, La., December 8, 1863, being 
a son of Philip and Rosalie Marks Bernstein, who were born in Germany, and now 
live in Natchitoches Parish, La., having come here in 1840.  Mr. Bernstein is the 
second of eight children born to his parents, of whom sever are living.  He was given 
educational advantages far beyond the average, graduating in 1878 from the Boys' 
Central High School of New Orleans.  In that city he began the study of law, in 1885, 
and graduated from the law department of the Tulane University in May, 1886, and on 
the 26th of that month and year was admitted to the bar.  In the month of April, 1887, 
he located in Winnfield, and of this place has become a well known attorney, for he has 
been very skillful in the management of the cases which have been given to him.  He has 
eminently succeeded in getting a large share of the business and the confidence of the 
business men in this section , and has all the work he can properly attend to.  Since July, 
1888, he has been clerk of the police jury, and in his political views is a staunch supporter 
of the Democratic principles.  He belongs to Eastern Star Lodge No. 151, of the F. & 
A. M. (Masons) of Winnfield, and Caldwell Lodge No. 91, Knights of Pythias, of which 
he is a charter member.


Morris Bernstein is the pioneer merchant of Winnfield, La., and by his superior management 
and shrewd, yet honest, business tactics, he has been very fortunate, and he has done much to
advance Winnfield's reputation as a business center.  He is of German nativity, born in 
Prussia in the month of October, 1834, but becoming tired of the rather humdrum existence 
he was leading in this native land,  he determined to come to America in search of adventure 
and his fortune.  He first landed in the United States in 1849, but in 1852 became a resident 
of Winnfield, and opened a general mercantile establishment, to which he has since devoted 
his attention, and has been for long time the leading merchant of the parish.  He has always
identified himself with every interest of his adopted country, and is especially interested in 
the affairs of Louisiana and Winn Parish.  He has always given his support to the Democratic
party, at all times voting for the men and measures of that party, and socially has for a long 
time been a member of the F. & A. M. (Masons), at the present time being a member of 
Eastern Star Lodge No. 151.  During the Rebellion he served for some time in Company K,
Twenty-eighth Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States Army, and was a brave and
 faithful soldier in fighting for the cause he espoused.  He is one of the oldest and best known
residents of the parish, and like the majority of his countrymen he is a far-seeing, intelligent 
and honorable man of business.




(The above article was taken from "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest 
Louisiana, published in 1890 by The Southern Publishing Company, and submitted by
Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, La.)