San Diego County Biographies
 
JULIUS BERNSTEIN

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One of the leading business men of Elsinore, was born in Prussia, Germany, in 
1851. He received a good business education there, and afterward served an 
apprenticeship of three years to learn the mercantile business. Mr. Bernstein's 
parents were both German. He came to the United States in 1873, and was 
naturalized in 1878, that being as soon as he could become a citizen of the 
country of his adoption. He entered upon his apprenticeship when he was fifteen 
years of age, after which he clerked for one year, and then he came to the 
United States. He accepted a clerkship in a San Francisco house, where he 
remained three years, when he returned to Europe on a visit. Then he returned to 
New York and for a time clerked both in New York and Boston. He then removed to 
San Francisco and was in that part of the State for five years, when he again 
returned to Europe on a visit to his parents. After a stay of five months he came 
to the State of Georgia and clerked for five years. In 1885 he came to Elsinore and 
bought out the parties who had the first store, and has continued in the 
business ever since. He has a double store and is dealing in general 
merchandise. During the four years he has been in business here, his trade has 
grown constantly, and he has a large stock and is doing the only general 
merchandise business of the town, and his trade reaches out twenty miles in all 
directions. He has four men constantly employed in the business. He was married 
in 1885 to Miss Michelson, a native of Prussia, and they have three children, 
all born in Elsinore: David, Clara and Freddie. He has made some investments in 
town lots and acre property, and is an accomplished business man. He is a member 
of the I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W., and the B'nai B'rith.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  138-139