Joseph Koch (September 28, 1843 – August 28, 1902) was a Jewish-American lawyer, judge, and politician from New York.
During the American Civil War, he served in the Judge Advocate General's Department of the Army with the rank of major from August 1862 until his honorable discharge in May 1863.
[4] Koch retired as Deputy County Clerk in 1869, when he was elected Civil Justice in the Fifth District.
[5] In 1877, he was nominated by anti-Tammany organizations for Justice of the Marine Court, losing the election by a small majority and allegedly due to fraud.
In 1883, he called attention to the devastation of the Adirondack Forest and wrote an elaborate report on the subject.
[16] He was a school trustee for the 19th Ward from 1877 to 1882 and a delegate to the 1894 New York State Constitutional Convention.
[2] An active member of B'nai B'rith, Koch was president of the District Grand Lodge No.
[3] Koch died in Mount Sinai Hospital from a long illness on August 28, 1902.