Henry Friedlander
Born: June 2, 1820
Died: September 21, 1903, Memphis, Tennessee.
Immigration to US: 1866, New York, New York.
Bertha (Wolf) Friedlander
Born: 1826, Prussia
Amelia (Friedlander) Cohn
Born: February 20, 1870
Died: June 28, 1898, Leadville, Colorado
Louis Cohn (Husband to Amelia)
Amelia Friedlander with her mother, Bertha, and her father, Henry, came to Leadville from Paris, Texas, in 1893. [1] A grocer by trade, Henry found a position with Sandusky furniture. [2] Amelia was the youngest of six Friedlander children and the only one to accompany their parents to Leadville. Amelia may have had a greater appreciation for Leadville than her parents as they left the area for Memphis sometime in January of 1895. [3] Amelia was popular within the Leadville community and the Temple Israel congregation. She served as the synagogue Sunday school teacher [4] for the short portion of her life she spent in town, from 1893 to 1898.
Amelia was friendly with the Cohn family, local pawnshop proprietors. [5] Judging by the social columns, she and Louis Cohn attended many of the same community functions and parties, [6] but this was far more than coincidental; the couple was married on January 17, 1897. [7] Their romance ended rather tragically after Amelia, age 28, [8] suffered from a sudden illness and died in Cripple Creek, Colorado, [9] on June 28, 1898, roughly a year and a half after they were wed. She is interred at the Leadville Jewish Cemetery. [10]
Tombstone of Amelia (Freidlander) Cohn at the Hebrew Cemetery, Leadville Colorado.
Photo by RG de Stolfe. 2014.
Tombstone of Amelia (Freidlander) Cohn at the Hebrew Cemetery, Leadville Colorado.
Photo by RG de Stolfe. 2014.
1 “Pleasing Events That Mark The Closing Days Of Summer And The Opening Of The Fall Season”. Herald Democrat. CC Davis And Co. Leadville, CO; USA. September 3, 1893. P 5.
2 Ballenger, JH and Richards. “Ballenger & Richard’s Fifteenth Annual City Directory: Containing A Complete List Of The Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business, Business Firms Etc. In The City Of Leadville For 1895”. P 125.
3 “There’s Gaiety Galore”. Herald Democrat. CC Davis And Co. Leadville, CO; USA. January 28, 1894. P 5.
4 “The Feast Of Chanuka”. Herald Democrat. CC Davis And Co. Leadville, CO; USA. December 12, 1893. P 8.
5 For more information about the Cohn Family see: http://www.jewishleadville.org/cohn.
6 “Why Not Drop In Your Mite”. Herald Democrat. CC Davis And Co. Leadville, CO; USA. December 3, 1895. P 3.
7 Nancy Manly. Index To Marriages And Marriage Licenses Recorded At The Lake County Courthouse. Manly & Wolford. Leadville, CO; USA. 1990.
8 Bonnie Perl. "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVJ-2F1L : 13 December 2015), Amelia Cohn, 1898; Burial, Leadville, Lake, Colorado, United States of America, Hebrew Cemetery of Leadville; citing record ID 18421855, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com
9 “Death of Mrs. Cohn.” Herald Democrat, June 28, 1898. Accessed November 10, 2016. https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org .
10 “Who’s Where In Leadville’s Evergreen Cemetery”. Historical Research Co-operative. Leadville, CO; USA. 1981.
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“Amid Merry Spring Days”. Herald Democrat. CC Davis And Co. Leadville, CO; USA. May 19, 1895. P 5.
“An Evening Of Pleasures”. The Evening Chronicle. CC Davis & Co. Leadville, CO; USA. October 19, 1894.
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Perl, Bonnie. "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVJ-2F1L : 13 December 2015), Amelia Cohn, 1898; Burial, Leadville, Lake, Colorado, United States of America, Hebrew Cemetery of Leadville; citing record ID 18421855, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFN5-24Z : 15 July 2017), Henry Friedlander, Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 81, sheet 204A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1314; FHL microfilm 1,255,315.
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To cite any of the information in this biography, please use the following reference.
AUTHOR: Jeffrey P. Grant
EDITOR: William Korn
SOURCE: Jewish Surnames/Friedlander
PUBLISHED BY: Temple Israel Foundation. Leadville, Colorado; USA. 2018.
STABLE URL: http://www.jewishleadville.org/friedlander.html
