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


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MORRIS BERNSTEIN

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, 1884, but
becoming tired of the rather humdrum existence he was leading in his 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 a 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., at the present time being a member of Eastern Star
Lodge No. 1,51.  

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.

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