Wolfson, Joseph N.

 Submitted by Mike Miller

Joseph N. Wolfson, attorney, New Orleans, La. Mr. Wolfson, a prominent attorney of New Orleans, owes his nativity to Compti, La., his birth occurring March 29, 1858. He is the son of Jacob A. and Caroline (Lorch) Wolfson, the former having also been a prominent attorney. Before the war the father had been a very successful merchant at Natchitoches parish, but at the age of sixty-two years he turned his attention to law, distinguishing himself at the bar. He died at the age of seventy-eight years. Our subject's maternal grandfather, Alexander Lorch, came to the United States from Germany, and was also a lawyer of no mean ability of both his native and adopted countries. Joseph N. Wolfson received his collegiate training in the best schools of northern Louisiana, and between the age of eighteen and twenty-nine years he was engaged in merchandising. He had a natural aptitude for the practice of law, however, and entered into the practice of the same while yet a merchant and before he had made it a study. In 1884 he began the study of law under the Hon. J. D. Watkins, and afterward completed a law course in Tulane university, graduating in 1885. Since that time he has practiced constantly in New Orleans, La. He makes a specialty of commercial and insurance law, and has been very successful in damage suits.

In politics he is a stanch democrat and has ever advocated the principles of that party. He is a member of the various Jewish orders of the city, a prominent Mason and Knight of Pythias, and a liberal contributor to all public enterprises. He was married March 31, 1886, to Miss Esther Dinkelspiel, of New Orleans, and this union has been blessed by the birth of two children--a son and a daughter.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 463. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.