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 1744 - 1823 (79 years)
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| Name |
Jacob I. Cohen [2, 3, 4] |
| Born |
1744 |
Oberdorff, Germany  [3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Alt Birth |
1747 |
Oberdorff, Germany [3] |
| Reference Number |
837 |
| Died |
9 Oct 1823 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [3] |
| Person ID |
I837 |
aojd |
| Last Modified |
14 Nov 2011 |
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| Notes |
- "Revolutionary soldier, Lushington's Brigade, S.C." [3]
- (Research):AJLLJ Portrait Database 5 Aug 2011
Her eight children accompanying her, Judith I. Solomon Cohen moved from Richmond, Virginia to Baltimore in 1808. The oldest of them, Jacob, was no longer a child. His father had died five years earlier, and there was now great pressure on the eldest to earn for the family. His first venture, in which he was joined by his brothers, as he would be so often in the future, was a lottery. This was soon parlayed into banking, and eventually a firm bearing his name— Jacob I. Cohen, Jr. and Brothers. His brothers, including Mendes and Benjamin, worked for some time at the firm. In the mid-nineteenth century it was one of the premier financial institutions in the country, and the American financial representatives of the Rothschilds. Cohen served as a director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, as president of the Baltimore-Philadelphia Railroad and president of the Baltimore Insurance Company.
Along with Solomon Etting, Cohen became deeply involved in the Jewish struggle for liberty in Maryland. At the time Jews were barred from holding elected office in the state, and Cohen lobbied extensively to change the wording of the state constitution to include full Jewish political participation. In 1818 as the state legislature was considering the issue, he wrote a letter assuring them that Jews felt safe in Maryland and objected only to those "obnoxious parts of the State's constitution produced only in times of darkness and prejudice [which are] blots on the present enlightened period, on the honor of the State, in direct opposition to the features and principles of the Constitution of the United States." Though the bill for broader religious inclusion was defeated, it did pass seven years later. And after its passage, Cohen was elected to the Baltimore City Council. [5]
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- [S285] .
- [S4] PG. 32 COHEN II (BALTIMORE);200 MORDECAI I (1) (Reliability: 3).
- [S4] PG. 234 NUNEZ (Reliability: 3).
- [S68] FAMILY CHART (Reliability: 3).
- [S294] COHEN, JACOB I. (Reliability: 3).
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