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Octavus Roy Cohen .American, Born in Charleston, South
Carolina, 26 June 1891. Educated at Porter Military Academy, Charleston;
Clemson Agricultural College, South Carolina. B.S. 1911; studied law in
his father's office, and admitted to the South Carolina Bar, 1913.
Served in the United States Naval Reserve, 1939-40: Lieutenant. Married
Inez Lopez in 1914; one son. Civil engineer, Tennessee Coal Iron and
Railroad Company. 1909-10; newspaperman for Birmingham Ledger,
Charleston News and Courier, Bayonne Times, New Jersey, and Newark
Morning Star, before practising law, Charleston. 1913-15. Self-employed
writer after 1915. Litt. D.: Birmingham Southern College, 1927. Died 6
January 1959.
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