Solomon Cohen Jr.

Solomon Cohen Jr. (August 15, 1802 – August 14, 1875) was a lawyer, prominent in Savannah, Georgia, where he was also postmaster, the state's first Jewish senator, a district attorney, a real-estate developer and banker. He established the first Jewish Sunday School in Georgia.

He is mentioned in the memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman as being a "rich lawyer". He was the first Jewish birth in Georgetown County. One of his siblings, brother Octavus, was a cotton merchant. as a state legislator, he served as a leader of its Nullification faction. he married Miriam Gratz Moses, niece of Rebecca Gratz, a philanthropist from Philadelphia.

17 West Bay Street in Savannah is known as the Solomon Cohen Building. It was built for Cohen in 1869

In 1839, Cohen and his brother-in-law Mordecai Myers (husband of his sister Sarah Henrietta) helped established the Georgia Historical Society. Cohen was its treasurer between 1841 and 1844, and its vice-president between 1864 and 1868.

He served as the president of the Congregation Mickve Israel for several years. an addition to the 1851-built number 124.

Cohen was a slave-owner. At one point, he owned eight slaves and hired out an additional fifteen.

He was a member of Georgetown's Winyah Indigo Society, and a charter member of the Georgetown's Planters Club.

Properties In addition to his home at 116–120 West Liberty Street, Cohen also built properties at 124 West Liberty Street (1851) and 17 West Bay Street (1869).

Death Cohen died in 1875, aged 72. He is interred in Savannah's Laurel Grove Cemetery, alongside his wife, who survived him by sixteen years.