HENRY BERNSTEIN, WINN PARISH, LOUISIANA
Submitted by: Annette (Carpenter) Womack
of Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA
January 1998
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BIOGRAPHICAL & HISTORICAL 
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HENRY BERNSTEIN

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 practice 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 the 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
seven 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 be 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
stanch supporter of Democratic principles.  He, belongs to the following
social orders: Eastern Star Lodge No. 151, of the F. & A. M. of Winnfield, 
and Caldwell Lodge No. 15l, of the E. of P., of which he is a charter member.




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