Researching Henry Cohen
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The name Henry means "ruler of the home" and is of German origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Henry Cohen and the Cohen Genealogy
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Henry Cohen (civil servant)
Henry Cohen (June 5, 1922 – January 14, 1999) was appointed in 1946 the director of Föhrenwald, the third-largest Displaced Persons camp in the American sector of post-World War II Germany. A native of New York City and a child of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, Cohen was a graduate of City College of New York. During World War II, he served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army.
He later served as research director of the New York City Planning Department and as Deputy City Administrator under Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr.. Later, he was First Deputy Administrator of the New York Human Resources Administration under Mayor John Lindsay.
After leaving the city government, Cohen became the founding Dean of the Milano School of Management, Policy, and Environment at The New School.
Source: Henry Cohen (civil servant), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaHenry Cohen (rabbi)
Henry Cohen (April 7, 1863 – June 12, 1952) was a British-American rabbi, scholar, community activist and writer who served most of his career at Congregation B'nai Israel in Galveston, Texas, from 1888 to 1949. He came to the United States in 1885, during a period of rapid and massive growth related to early 20th-century immigration from eastern and southern Europe. In Texas, he organized the Galveston Movement, which worked from 1907 to 1914 to attract eastern European Jewish immigrants to Galveston and the Gulf Coast as a destination, as an alternative to the better known Northeastern cities. Ten thousand such immigrants entered at Galveston.
When his congregation built a community house in 1928, they named it in his honor. He helped organize and lead many educational and community institutions. Able to read ten languages, he was known as a Talmud scholar, and published books about Texas history and Judaism. Together with rabbi David Lefkowitz of Dallas, Cohen interviewed many Jewish Texans to collect their histories for the Texas Centennial in 1936.
Source: Henry Cohen (rabbi), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaHenry Cohen (judge)
Henry Emanuel Cohen (1 December 1840 – 5 January 1912) was a judge and politician in New South Wales, Australia.
Cohen was born in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, the second son of Abraham Cohen of Sydney, and entered as a student at the Middle Temple in October 1868. In 1848 he family moved and in 1855 they moved to Goulburn where Cohen attended private school In 1856 at age 16 he stated to work as a clerk at David Cohen and Company, first in Sydney then moved to West Maitland until he resigned in 1864. He went into business with his twin brother George opened a store in Bathurst until it was closed in 1867. In June 1871 he was called to the English bar, and returned to Sydney, where he was admitted to the local bar. On his return to Sydney was boat shipwrecked at Galle
On 21 December 1874 Cohen was elected for West Maitland in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He was Colonial Treasurer in the James Farnell Ministry from December 1877 to December 1878. In May 1881 he was appointed District Court Judge for the Sydney Metropolitan and Coast District, but resigned the position, and re-entered politics, being Minister of Justice in the Alexander Stuart Cabinet from January 1883 to October 1885.
Cohen was appointed acting judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 19 July 1895, and in 1896 accepted an offer of a permanent position on the bench. Cohen was inaugural president of the Arbitration Court, 1 April 1902 to 3 July 1905.
Fanny, Lady Benjamin (c. 1839 – 18 February 1912), wife of Sir Benjamin Benjamin, MLC and mayor of Melbourne, was a sister.
In December 1910 he decided to leave absence from Supreme Court. In March 1911 he departed Sydney to visit England, France and Germany.On 5th January 1912 he died on board the SS' Friedrich der Grosse'. He is buried at Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney.
Source: Henry Cohen (judge), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Cohen
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