Salomon Cohen was the fourth child of the cattle trader and butcher Izaak Cohen and Elizabeth van Lier. He was born in Rotterdam on 9 October 1871 into a family which would grow till twelve children. He married at the age of 38 in Herwijnen on 13 April 1910 the 23-year old Sophia van Straten, a daughter of Manuël van Straten, butcher in Herwijnen and Helena Frank. Sophia was born there on 22 March…