Cohen, Sam
Person
Biography
Owned a general store in Fairplay. Also severed as an early mayor of Fairplay as well as a state representative from South Park in the state legislature.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
East Denver High School Class of 1907, 1907
Item
Identifier: B063.02.0033.0012.00001
Abstract
The East High School in Denver, Colorado, class of 1907, is shown sitting and standing in ten rows on the steps leading to the entrance of East High. The boys are attired in suits and the girls in skirts and blouses. Students in the photograph who are identified on the back are: Lewis Chernoff, Genevieve E. Perry, Irene Petersen, Chas. Hezmalhalah, Rowena E. McLennke, Bertha Werner, George F. Kimbrough, Earl Ellis, Baptiste Zimmermann, Earl Cree, Oscar M. Rachofsky, Arthur H. Laws, Claribel...
Dates:
1907
National Jewish Hospital's Board of Trustees, between 1920-1940
Item
Identifier: B063.03.0003.00007
Abstract
Portrait of National Jewish Hospital's Board of Trustees stands on steps of an unidentified building, which was probably located on the hospital's campus. First row left to right: M. D. Barnett, Rabbi William Friedman, two unidentified men, and Dr. Robert Levy. Second row left to right: Sam Cohen, Ernest Morris, Sam Grimes, Sam Fleisher, and Arthur Friedman. Row 3 left to right: Michael Baum, three unidentified men, and Morris Cohen. Row 4 left to right: Dr. Adelman, an unidentified man,...
Dates:
between 1920-1940
Regina Collins, 1937-1977
File
Identifier: B111.02.0002.0015
Abstract
Includes newspaper clippings regarding the Jewish Pioneers and the Denver Jewry, including Sam Cohen, Sam Wachbel, Mrs. Ray David, Mrs. Hentrietta Bergheim, and the JCRS.
Dates:
1937-1977
Sam Cohen, 1894-1983
File
Identifier: B111.02.0002.0013
Abstract
Samuel Cohen (1845-?) was born in Wloclawek, Warsaw, Poland, and immigrated to New York City in 1866. In 1873, Cohen went west to Denver on the advice of a friend. He found little opportunity in Denver, and went south to Pueblo, where he stayed for a short time. Upon finding little opportunity in Pueblo as well, Cohen traveled to Fairplay, Colorado (in Park County) entirely on foot, where he finally settled. Cohen became one of Fairplay's leading merchants, and invested heavily in mining...
Dates:
1894-1983
Small Town Jews: Creating Colorado Communities, 2014
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Identifier: B230.03.0023.00014
Abstract
Brief biographies of Jewish men and women who grew up in small communities in Colorado. Contains historical photographs and interviews with people describing their childhoods.
Dates:
2014
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