The 4th of October 1858 Leire Cohen was born in Delfzijl as son of the butcher Comprecht Cohen and Saartje (Sara) Blok. In his further life he usually was called Levie. Levie Cohen was a teacher. 16 August 1884 he married in Beerta Frouwke de Jonge, 23 years old, a daughter of Sekkel Noachs de Jonge, also butcher by trade and Lena Gosschalk. The couple had three children; two of them died as a bab…