Bio of KOHEN, Max A. (b.1874), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 817-818
MAX A. KOHEN
Max A. Kohen, Jeweler of Minneapolis, conducting business at No. 13 South Fifth
street, is actuated by a progressive spirit in all that he undertakes and
thoroughness and close application have constituted the broad foundation on
which he has built his success. Born in Russia, on the 6th of August, 1874, he
was educated in the public schools of Kishinef, Bessarabia, which he attended
until he reached the age of fifteen years. He then bade adieu to friends and
native country and came with his parents to America in 1889, with Minneapolis as
the destination of the family. Here he attended the public schools and thus
learned to speak the English language. He spent six months in study, after which
he made his initial step into the business world by entering the employ of
Segelbaum Brothers, then the leading retail dry goods merchants of the city,
conducting business at the corner of Third street and Nicollet avenue. He
occupied a position with that house for two years and in the meantime attended
the night sessions of the Minnesota School of Business, in order to acquaint
himself with commercial methods. He carefully saved his earnings until he
possessed a sufficient sum to enable him to complete a course in the day school
of the Minnesota School of Business and thus he was well trained for the onerous
and responsible duties which have later devolved upon him. Desirous that his
labors should directly benefit himself, he started a small business in 1894 in
association with his father, Louis Kohen, on Sixth avenue South, and Washington
avenue. There they continued until 1899, when Max A. Kohen purchased the
interest of his father, after which he carried on the business alone until 1907.
In that year he became associated with the American Jewelry Company at No. 408
First avenue South, and remained in that connection until 1911, when he sold his
interest in the business and opened a store at his present location. Here
through the intervening years he has built up a large trade in the sale of
diamonds, watches and jewelry, his patronage being now of extensive proportions.
His entire career shows what can be accomplished by a man of determination and
laudable purpose. Coming to this country an entire stranger, unacquainted with
the language of the people, unfamiliar with its business methods and without
adequate training for the business world, he resolutely set to work to do away
with all these handicaps, and step by step he has advanced, becoming a strong
and forceful figure in commercial circles and occupying today an enviable place
as a Jeweler and diamond merchant of his adopted city.
On the 21st of February, 1899, Mr. Kohen was married to Miss May Gittelson of
Minneapolis, and they have become parents of two children: Harold G. and Evelyn
Irene, the latter a student in the Connecticut College for Girls at New London,
Connecticut! Mr. Kohen has a beautiful home at No. 2358 West Lake of the Isles
and is now able to provide his family with all of the comforts and many of the
luxuries of life. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and member of Zuhrah Temple
of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Elks Club and to the Oak Ridge Golf
Club, the latter indicating much concerning the nature of his recreation and the
employment of his leisure hours. He likewise has membership in the Civic &
Commerce Association and this is indicative of the spirit which he manifests in
relation to everything that has to do with public welfare and with those
interests which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. He is truly
American in thought and spirit and perhaps is far more appreciative of the
opportunities of a republic than those who have never been denied the chances
offered through this form of government.