Los
Angeles County
Biographies
D.
Brandon Bernstein, who has five decorations in token of his valiant service in
the World ward, is numbered among the learned and successful representatives of
the legal profession in Los Angeles, where he has been actively engaged in
general practice during the past decade.
He was born in New York city on the 20th of March, 1897, and
was orphaned at the age of ten years. He
worked his way through the public schools of the eastern metropolis and
received his higher intellectual training at the Cecil Rhodes College
Preparatory School of New York, the University of the State of New York and the
College of Agriculture of Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, attending the
last named institution in 1920-21. His
professional course was pursued in the law department of the University of
Southern California, which he attended for three years, being graduated
therefrom in 1925. Admitted to the
California bar in 1926, he has since followed his profession in Los Angeles, practicing
in all courts of the state with marked success.
He has a membership in the Los Angeles Bar Association and the American
Bar Association, and he enjoys an enviable and well merited reputation among
his professional colleagues and contemporaries.
David Brandon Bernstein was married
in 1923 and has two children. He is an
active leader in community life and takes a helpful part in charitable projects
as well as in civic affairs. Fraternally
he is affiliated with the Masons, belonging to Westgate Lodge, No. 335, F.
& A. M., and he is also a member of B’nai B’rith and of Lodge No. 99 of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
The military record of Mr. Bernstein
covers twenty-five months’ service with the United States Marine Corps in
France. He was three times wounded in
action and received the decorations of the Distinguished Service Cross, the
Navy War Cross, the Croix de Guerre, the Purple Heart and the Silver Star. He has a membership in the American Legion,
the Disabled Veterans of the World War, the Legion of Valor and the Second
Division Association, and he likewise belongs to the Los Angeles Chapter No. 2
of the Purple Heart Association of the United States. The following is an excerpt from an article
which appeared in The Veterans News Reel, published in Los Angeles, in June,
1934: “The ladies auxiliary of the
Purple Heart Association of the United States held a dinner and entertainment
meeting in Patriotic Hall, on June 21st, in honor of Comrade D.
Brandon Bernstein, newly elected department commander. Comrade Bernstein is the organizer of the
Purple Heart Association in California and we believe that this organization is
growing faster and with more enthusiasm than any other veteran group in
California. It has been our pleasure to
attend many notable affairs such as this, but it left us with a certain feeling
that this was the outstanding event we have witnessed since leaving the
service.
.
. . . Mrs. Mabel Patton, national president of the ladies’ auxiliary, decorated
Comrade Bernstein with the insignia of his office.”
Transcribed by
Mary Ellen Frazier.
Source:
California of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty,
Pages 801-802, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Mary Ellen Frazier.
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