Biography of Max Cohen, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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Max Cohen has been a resident of Forrest City since August 1933 for his new
business venture. Three years later he married Miss Ella Louise Riegler who has
helped him develop his Cohen's Dept. Store into a solid clothing firm in the
area. He spent his boyhood in Minneapolis, Minn., where he graduated at the
North High School and then attended the University of Minnesota for two and a
half years. He started a business in Little Rock in 1927, then moving to Eudora,
Dermott before coming to Forrest City. His wife, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. M.
Reigler of Wynne, was married on Aug. 23, 1936. She was graduated from Wynne
High School, and later finished Miss Wylie's Office Training School in Memphis.
They are the parents of a son and a daughter. Mrs. Cohen is active in civic
organizations like the Cosmos Club, PTA, Hadassah (Memphis) Chapter, B'nai
B'rith Women's Chapter. Mr. Cohen is active in B'nai Scholen Lodge No. 754 of
B'nai R'ith, a32nd Degree Mason, a Shriner, and First Vice President of the
Chamber of Commerce.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas