Lewis Cohen (mayor)

Sir Lewis Cohen (23 December 1849 – 24 June 1933) was a businessman who was a Member of the South Australian Parliament for 10 years and served on the Adelaide City Council for 30 years.

Nine years later with the business running successfully, the family returned to England, and Lewis was sent to Jewish school at Edmonton.

At age 17 he returned to Sydney and at 19, bankrolled by his father and accompanied by a friend, he set up a shop in Levuka, then capital of Fiji.

With his health failing, he returned to Sydney in 1873, where he remained until 1876 when on medical advice he and his wife moved to Adelaide, opening a branch of the London Discount Bank.

[1][2] He married Selina Marks (6 March 1856 – 16 October 1933) in Melbourne on 9 April 1873.