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M. BLOCK is a thrifty merchant of Franklin, Louisiana. He is the son of Isaac
and Fannie (Tugenheim) Block.
Isaac Block was born in France, 1793, and
never came to America. He was by occupation a merchant. Fannie Block was born in
France, 1793.
Our subject received a fair elementary education in France,
and after having left school and served as a clerk in mercantile business for a
short period, he came to America, 1848. He landed at New Orleans and soon
located in Franklin. His first experience here was as a clerk in a gents'
furnishing goods store. He quit this business and went on the road as a peddler
till 1856. He then opened business for himself at Berwick City, where he
remained till the breaking out of the war, when he removed to New Orleans and
remained till the war closed, when he removed to Franklin and opened business
for himself, and in this still remains and has been highly successful.
He
was married in 1871 to Miss Annette Levy. Eight children were born to this
marriage -- six sons and two daughters. His wife is a native of France, but came
to this country at the age of fourteen years.
Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, page 364.
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