- Collection:
- Savannah Biographies
- Title:
- Dina Cohen Minis
- Creator:
- Straight, Judith D.
- Date of Original:
- 1993-11-17
- Subject:
- Biography--Georgia--Savannah
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- biographies (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Dinah Cohen was born in Georgetown, South Carolina on 21 April 1787, the eldest child of Solomon and Belle Gratz Cohen. She married Isaac Minis on 14 or 11 December 1803 in Charleston. They had thirteen children. Her oldest son, Philip, was in a duel in 1832. Another son, Abraham, was a prosperous businessman and politician in Savannah. Isaac, her husband, was a businessman and a leader of the Savannah and Jewish communities. Dinah was known to have supported the South during the Civil War and was pardoned in 1867. She died on 17 February 1874 at the age of 86.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/218
- Holding Institution:
- Lane Library (Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus)
- Rights:
-
