Stern, Maurice

Submitted by Mike Miller

Stern, Maurice, was born in Emershausen, Bavaria, Germany, Jan. 6, 1855. After completing grammar school in that town, he left borne at the age of 13 to enter the employ of Gebruder Simson, in Suhl, Germany, as an apprentice. He remained with that firm for 3 years; leaving his native country at the age of 16, he came to New Orleans and entered the employ of Lehman, Newgass & Co., in the year 1871. In the year 1880 he was admitted as a partner in this firm, which had in the meantime changed its name to Lehman, Abraham & Co. In 1886 this firm was dissolved and reorganized under the name of Lehman, Stern & Co., with Mr. Stern as senior partner. He is vice-president of the Lane cotton mills, director of the Whitney Central National bank and of the Whitney Central Trust & Savings bank, treasurer of the Southern States Land & Timber Co., president of the Sague De Tananio Land Co., treasurer of the Louisiana Homeseekers Farm & Land Co., treasurer of the New Orleans Dry Dock and Ship Building Co. He served several terms as director of the New Orleans cotton exchange and also as treasurer of that institution. He was a member of the executive committee of the Panama Exposition and a member of the special committee that secured Federal control of quarantine. He served as a member of the state board of education of Louisiana, and is treasurer of the Jewish Widows & Orphans home, and was at one time trustee of the Touro infirmary. He is a member of the Harmony, Audubon Golf and Oakland Country clubs. He is also a member of the American Jewish committee, a national organization, and on the executive committee of the Hebrew Union college at Cincinnati. May 23, 1883, be was married to Hanna, a daughter of Isaac Bloom, of New Orleans. To Mr. and Mrs. Stern the following children have been born: S. Waher, Edgar B. and Sara M. Stern.

Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 575. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.