Julius Cohen

On his 1908 Petition for Naturalization, Julius indicated that he was born in "Brest, Russia" on August 15, 1868. His siblings Sol Cohen and Pearl Vein also stated this as their birthplaces on their respective petitions. His 1951 death certificate, also posted here, indicated his father was Chaim and his mother was Freida. On his tombstone, he was 83 years old at death and the son of Israel Chaim HaCohen.

Julius married Ida Savetman in Bialystok. I was able to obtain a scan of the original ledger entry recording the marriage, handwritten in Russian and posted here and translated, which gives the date as Aug 21, 1891. There was a ketuba, and a 60-ruble fee of some sort. She's 20 years old and is identified as "Chaya Genia David-Ickovna Savetman"--in other words, the daughter of David-isaac Savetman, same as her sister Ester Malke when she married in 1897. But the 24-year-old groom is identified as Judel Gersovitz Sadrin-- it looks like he morphed into Julius Cohn (Cohen) at some point after he emigrated to Baltimore because his age and (especially) his marriage year match Julius on the censuses. It's a mystery when/why the name was changed.

Their oldest child Herman was born in 1900. His birth was recorded in the register of Jewish births in Bialystok in that year. The baby's name was Srojel (Israel) Savrin (Sawryn in Polish). His parents were Judel Savrin, son of Srajel-Chaim, and Chaia-Genia. daughter of Isaac-David [Savetman]. An image of the original record in Russian was downloaded from the Bialystok branch of the Polish National Archives and is posted here and translated. Judel is described as a registered resident of "Shereshev" in both his 1891 marriage record and in the 1900 birth record of his son Srojel. This may be the town of Sharashova, now in Belarus. It's about 40 miles from Brest.

JUDEL SAWRIN immigrated from Bremen to Baltimore on the SS Roland and arrived on June 22, 1900. He was age 33, married, occupation joiner, last residence Bialystok. Ida apparently joined him in 1902.

They had 2 other children, both born in Maryland-- Jacob (later Jack Savrin Cohen) in 1903 and Moses Cohen in 1905.

He filed his Declaration in 1905 (Julius Cohen) and his Petition in 1908 (Julius Cohn, occupation carpenter), and was naturalized in January, 1909. They are Julius and Ida Cohn on the 1910 Census, Cohen after that.

Julius worked as a general contractor and builder in Baltimore. They lived at 4515 Pimlico Road in Baltimore for many years.

His obituary in the Baltimore Sun indicated that, in addition to his three sons, he was survived by a brother, Jacob Cohn, and a sister, Mrs. Pearl Vein.

Julius is buried in the Beth Shalom Hebrew Young Men's Cemetery on Windsor Mill Road, in Section D, Row 1, Plot 4. His tombstone indicates that he was 83.

Ed Friedel, Oct 2016