Cohen family
Biographical notes:
This collection contains papers relating to Octavus Cohen (1814-1876); his wife, Henrietta Yates Levy Cohen (c.1819-1915); and his son-in-law, Clavius Phillips (b.1838), who was married to Georgina Bryant Cohen. Octavus Cohen, a Savannah businessman, was the brother of Solomon Cohen. He was in the auction and commission business and a steamship agent, forming a partnership with Benjamin W. Fosdick. In 1854, after the death of Fosdick, he formed Octavus Cohen and Company, in which his son-in-law Clavius Phillips became a partner.
From the description of Cohen-Phillips papers, 1795-1949 (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 76789977
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Subjects:
- Amnesty
- Loyalty oaths
- Slave trade
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- United States (as recorded)
- Confederate States of America (as recorded)
