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Moses Abram Cohen was born in Charleston, South Carolina on October 22, 1815. He came to Savannah in 1834 and very rapidly entered the steamship business. In 1836 M. A. Cohen served as a Pheonix Rifleman in the Seminole War. During the American Civil War, Mr. Cohen served with the Savannah Artillery at Fort Pulaski for a short time. Socially, M.A. Cohen was a long-time member of the Zerubbabel Lodge of Masons. He also was an organizer of the Savannah Yacht Club in 1869. The only political position Mr. Cohen ever held was that of Mayor of Vernonburg (White Bluff).6 In the early 1890's he served as president of the Jasperville Lawn and Improvement Co.7 M.A. Cohen died on November 12, 1899 at the age of 84. Before his death he had been the oldest merchant living in Savannah and was also the oldest living member of the Chatham Artillery.8 on June 3, 1962 the family of Mary Newcomb Bull, relatives of M.A. Cohen, were killed in an Air France plane crash over Paris, France.9
Publication Date
Fall 1990
Recommended Citation
Childress, Layton, "Moses Abram Cohen" (1990). Savannah Biographies. 46.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/46
