Edward S. Kerstein was a Milwaukee Journal reporter
who specialized in legal and court issues. He was born in 1911 on Milwaukee’s south
side, the tenth of twelve children. His father was a Polish immigrant and violin
maker. Kerstein graduated from Marquette University in 1934 with a B.A. in
Journalism. He served as editor for the Marquette University annual, The Hilltop, and was also managing editor of the
university student newspaper The Tribune. He joined
the Milwaukee Journal staff in 1935 as a police
reporter and retired from the Journal in 1976.
Kerstein died in 2004 at the age of 93.
