Isaac (Izydor) Cohn and Laura (Lea) Thom

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Husband Isaac (Izydor) Cohn

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           Born: Apr 21, 1839 - Kempen, Germany
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           Died: Jul 18, 1844 - Lemberg/Lwow, Ukraine
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         Father: Chaim (Jochem/Herman) Cohn
         Mother: Rozalia (Rietze) Landau

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Wife Laura (Lea) Thom

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Children

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1 F Jozia (Josephine) Cohn

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           Born: Aug 1867 - Lemberg/Lwow, Ukraine
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         Spouse: Jozua (Jozsef Konti) Cohn

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2 M Josef Cohn

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           Born: Dec 1868 - Lemberg/Lwow, Ukraine
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           Died: Mar 11, 1895 - Czernowitz, Ukraine
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3 F Elisabethe (Elzbieta) Cohn

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           Born: Jun 10, 1870 - Lemberg/Lwow, Ukraine
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           Died: Jul 24, 1935 - Lemberg/Lwow, Ukraine
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4 M Alfred (Fredzio) Cohn

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           Born: Mar 1872 - Lemberg/Lwow, Ukraine
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           Died: Abt 1878 - Lemberg/Lwow, Ukraine
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5 F Karolina [Karolicia] [Harlotte Rebeka] Cohn

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           Born: May 1873 - Lemberg, Austria (Lviv Urkraine)
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           Died: Dec 30, 1910 - Tarnopol', Irkutsk, Russia
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         Spouse: Leon Somer

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6 M Dawid (Ernest) Colm

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           Born: Dec 6, 1877 - Lemberg/Lwow, Ukraine
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           Died: Jun 29, 1945 - Vienna, Austria
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         Spouse: Juliana (Lia Lea) Grassler
           Marr: Sep 14, 1922 - Vienna, Austria

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7 M Seweryn (Sewercio) Cohn

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           Born: 1880 - Lemberg/Lwow, Ukraine
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           Died: Mar 20, 1886
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General Notes: Husband - Isaac (Izydor) Cohn

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He was born in Kempen (Kepno) in the Prussian Empire on April 21, 1839 . When he was approximately ten years old the family moved to Warsaw , his father's home city. He attended the Warsaw School of Fine Arts . When he was a student he had a duel with a Russian officer and ha d to flee the country. He went to England where he lived in Mancheste r for abut ten years. He moved to Lemberg in 1866 to get married. Iz ydor was married to Laura (Lea) Thom, a daughter of Jozef and Taube Th om. They were married on May 3, 1866. Jozef Thom was a well-known mi ll owner in Lemberg.

After his marriage Izydor helped to finance an extension of the Karl L udwig bahn (Railway) from Lemberg to Brody (This railway up until tha t time only went from Krakow to Lemberg.). An obituary describes hi m as "one of the concessionaires of the Karl Ludwig Bahn." After tha t he owned a private bank in Lemberg. He was the author of a brochure /pamphlet entitled: "Project zur Herstellung eines Normalzustandes au f dem Effecten und Geldmarkt, wie auch zur Theilung der noch gesunde n Bank Institute" (Lemberg, 1973). Izydor died on July 18, 1884 in Le mberg, and Laura died on November 16, 1916 in Budapest. Izydor and La ura had seven children.

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Sources

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4. JRI-Poland Shtetl CO-OP Volunteers, comp, Poland, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, Marriages, 1798-1939 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 200 8;). Specific source information is provided with each record. This JRI-Pol and data is provided in partnership with JewishGen.org. JRI-Poland is an independent orga nization and its database is hosted by JewishGen.