Cohn, Louis
Person
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Louis Cohn, 1837 December 3-1899 July 31
File
Identifier: B111.02.0002.0021
Abstract
Louis Cohn (1837-1899) was born in Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland), and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1861. He traveled the Santa Fe Trail to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and opened a general merchandise store in the early 1860s. Cohn moved to San Luis, Colorado, in the early 1870s, and in 1876 married widow Juanita Mary Ruperta Valdez Cohn (1855-1895). In 1880, Cohn was elected as a delegate to the Colorado Democratic Convention, and was later elected to the Colorado House of...
Dates:
1837 December 3-1899 July 31