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Lichtenstein's four articles include short biographical essays on Louis D. Wilson and Thomas H. Hall and his opinions about Andrew Johnson and why North Carolina should erect a monument honoring him.
Gaston Lichtenstein was born December 17, 1879, in Tarboro, North Carolina, to David and Hannah Zander Lichtenstein. Although he attended the Tarboro Male Academy for five years, he graduated from Hughes High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He continued his secondary education at the University of Cincinnati and the Hebrew Union College where he received a degree in Hebrew letters in 1899. Lichtenstein was also a tutor and a researcher and is credited with finding letters that Patrick Henry wrote while he was governor of Virginia. Lichtenstein is most famous for his journalism. He authored several books including Early Social History of Tarboro, Early Social Life in Edgecombe, For Whom Was Edgecombe Named?, and Thomas Jefferson as War Governor just to name a few. He was also a contributor to The Tarbourgh Southerner, a local paper from the town of Tarboro. Gaston Lichtenstein never married and he died January 16, 1954, in Richmond, Virginia, in the hotel room where he lived. He is buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond.
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