RICHARD THOMAS COHN

Sacramento County

Biographies

RICHARD THOMAS COHN

RICHARD THOMAS COHN. Through a long period of service as recorder of Sacramento county Mr. Cohn has proved himself a reliable, accurate and painstaking official, and has won merited praise for careful attention to the work entrusted to his supervision. Much of his life has been passed in the city of Sacramento, where he was born February 29,1860, a son of Samuel and Mary (Kerregan) Cohn. The father was the recipient of excellent educational advantages and possessed inherited abilities in the mercantile line, being one of the pioneer merchants of Sacramento, where he established a growing trade in an early day. Both he and his wife remained residents of Sacramento until they died.

R.T. Cohn received his education in grammar and high schools in Sacramento and for some time after leaving school he was employed in the capacity of clerk for different parties. In the year 1887 he was appointed deputy auditor and recorder of Sacramento county under J. H. Miller, and at the expiration of Mr. Miller’s term of office he was appointed deputy under recorder F. P. Johnson, Under these two gentlemen he acquired a thorough knowledge of official duties and became fitted for the charge of the office itself. On the Republican ticket, in 1894, he was nominated for county auditor and recorder and received a fair majority at the election. Under the new law the term was made for four years. At the expiration of that period, in 1898, he was again chosen for the position, and a third time, in 1902, he was chosen for the responsible position of recorder, which he now fills.

The marriage of Mr. Cohn was solemnized in 1901 and united him with Miss Lyda A. McMullen, of Sacramento, member of an old family of this vicinity. Her father, George C. McMullen, who at one time was a county officer, now is a member of the firm of Miller & McMullen, funeral directors and embalmers, of Sacramento. In fraternal relations Mr. Cohn has many and varied associations, including among others membership in the Woodmen of the World, Elks and Eagles, also the Sacramento Parlor No. 3, Native Sons of the Golden West, in which he is past president, while his wife is actively associated with La Bandera Parlor No. 110, Native Daughters of the Golden West, in which she too holds the rank of past president.

Transcribed by Louise E. Shoemaker November 08,2007.

Source: “History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley, California” by J. M. Guinn. Pages 1192-1196. Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1906.