Louis Cohen

Louis Cohen arrived at the Home at age 3 in December 1922.

Apart from news clippings reporting that he appeared in the Home’s 1933 anniversary performance of Alice in Wonderland and that he graduated in 1937 from Samuel Peters Commercial High School for Boys with a bookkeeping diploma, most of what is known about Louis Cohen comes from his 1996 letter to JCRS Executive Director Ned Goldberg.

Comparing his status as an “Ex Home kid” to belonging to a special fraternity, Louis wrote about his best friend Leon Smith, whose mother was a close friend of Louis’s mother. While enclosing a generous donation of $100 in his mother’s memory, he also offered to send Goldberg old copies of the Home’s newsletter, The Golden City Messenger, that his mother had saved from his 17 years there.

Louis, writing from Jacksonville, Florida, identified himself as “U.S. Navy Retired.” 

Louis died 2008 in Jacksonville. He was 89.