Remembering Doctor Paul Cohen

I’ve been meaning to ask you for quite awhile if you know of, or are related to our family Doctor from the 50’s and 60’s. His name was Paul Cohen and he was at 5th and State Streets. He treated every member of our family from the early 50’s thru the mid 60’s.

The good Doctor was not only a great Doctor, but a decent caring human being. Dr. Cohen was never concerned with your ability to pay… he could wait until you got the money, his primary concern was the well being of his patients. This kind gentleman would make house calls after office hours, well into the night. I remember him coming to treat me for measles, around midnight.

I lost track of him after 1965, I think he may have retired, because my Grandmother, one of his patients for many years said he had discovered a blood clot in his leg and he could no longer get around.

His home was on the corner of 5th and State. The front was on State and you would enter his office thru a side door, near the rear of the building on 5th.

He drove a great big maroon colored Buick… said it was the only vehicle for a Doctor, very reliable! He was a wonderful caring person.

Charlie Moy, July 2004