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Jacob I. Cohen Jr.
Jacob I. Cohen Jr. (born September 30, 1789, in Richmond, Virginia; died April 6, 1869, in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American banker, railroad executive, and civic leader in Baltimore who helped win the right for Jews to hold public office in Maryland. Biography Sources differ on some details of his early life. The 1912 ''History of the Jews in America'' says his father was "Jacob J. Cohen", who emigrated from Rhenish Prussia to the American colonies in 1773, fought in the Revolutionary War, and died in 1808. The Maryland State Archives gives his father's name as "Israel I. Cohen", who died in 1803. The 1901 ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' says that the Jacob J. Cohen was the older brother of Israel, who followed him from Oberdorf, near Nördlingen, Bavaria, to Richmond in 1787. There Israel married and became the father of Jacob I. Cohen Jr. All agree that after the elder Cohen died, his widow, Judith Solomon Cohen (1766-1837), moved her six surviving children, all sons, from Richmon ...
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Richmond, Virginia
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