Alexander Bernstein

ALEXANDER BERNSTEIN. Residence, 776 Overton street; office, 836 Chamber of Commerce, Portland. Born October 10, 1858, at Kingston, Ulster County, New York. Son of Isaac and Henrietta (Alexander) Bernstein. Married November 20, 1887, to Salome Solis Cohen. Educated at the Kingston and New York City public schools, the College of the City of New York, from which he graduated in 1878 with the degree of A.B. Entered Law Department of Columbia College and graduated from the same with LL.B. degree. Admitted to the bar of New York May 14, 1880, at Ithaca, New York; to the Supreme court of the State of New York and to the Supreme Court of the State of Colorado the same year, and to the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon in 1883, in which year he was also admitted to the District and Circuit United States Courts and afterwards to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth District of Oregon. Member of Concordia Club, director of Portland Commercial Club. Republican. [source: History of the Bench and Bar of Oregon. Portland, Oregon : Historical Publishing Co., 1910]