Orange County Indexed
The Cohen surname
The Cohen name in Orange County Indexed: 2 historical records, 2 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1872
most named in the 1870s
- Deeds 1872
- In the chronology
- 1928 to 1982 2 people in 56 entries, most in the 1970s
- In books and archives
- 1 person, born 1936
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Hillsborough (2), King Street (2)
- People with a page here
- Norm Cohen
- Spellings to try
- Cowen, Cohern, Coren
- Search beyond these records
- Cohen in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Cohen there)
- Cohen in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 2 people
The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.
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Cohen, Gerry 55 entries, 1928–1980
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- 1971–1980: Students win and keep the vote in Orange County, 1971–1980
- 1939–1991: Chapel Hill's noise ordinance and student parties, 1939–1991
- 1965–1977: Chapel Hill and Carrboro town and school board elections, 1965–1977
- 1968–1990: Droughts, the Durham lines and Hillsborough water, 1968–1990
- 1969–1994: Campus radio: WCAR, WXYC and WUNC-FM, 1969–1994
- by May 10, 1971: The legislature moves Orange County into L. H. Fountain's Second Congressional District
- 1972–1974: Planning downtown Chapel Hill's renewal, 1972–1974
- 1972–1976: The farm workers' boycotts, 1972–1976
- May 27, 1972: Orange County Democrats hold a nine-hour convention under the party's new reform rules
- December 3, 1973: Chapel Hill aldermen ban parking in seven zones
- November 6, 1973: Chapel Hill elects Shirley Marshall, Gerry Cohen, Tommy Gardner and Sid Rancer to the Board of Aldermen
- June 1973: County commissioner Ira Ward resigns
- August 30, 1973: Law student Gerry Cohen announces for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
- October 24, 1973: More than 700 rally in the Pit for the impeachment of President Nixon
- November 6, 1973: More than 85 percent of registered students vote in the Chapel Hill town election
- 1973: Watergate and impeachment at UNC, 1973
- April 22, 1974: Chapel Hill aldermen budget the used buses and ask Orange County to help pay for the bus system
- March 11, 1974: Chapel Hill aldermen accept the downtown study and set up a committee to carry it out
- September 9, 1974: Aldermen name law student Ann Slifkin to the Chapel Hill Planning Board
- February 11, 1974: Chapel Hill aldermen approve a larger police fund for buying drugs as court evidence
- October 21, 1974: Chapel Hill aldermen endorse the pollution-control revenue bond amendment
- January 14, 1974: Chapel Hill aldermen turn down ECOS's offer to run the town's newspaper recycling program
- April 22, 1974: Chapel Hill aldermen turn down a plan to let vendors back onto Franklin Street
- September 3, 1974: Chapel Hill aldermen ask the county to rehear a rezoning beside the Eubanks Road landfill
- April 1, 1974: Chapel Hill aldermen cap new flows into the town sewage plant
- April 5, 1974: Chapel Hill supporters of the United Farm Workers rally in the Pit for the new grape and lettuce boycott
- January 20, 1975: Chapel Hill aldermen form a task force to look for another bus garage site
- January 10, 1975: Chapel Hill police photograph the High Noon gathering at the University's request
- October 13, 1975: Chapel Hill aldermen require town bus drivers to wear uniforms
- November 4, 1975: James C. Wallace is elected mayor of Chapel Hill
- by October 27, 1975: A local chapter of the People's Alliance organizes in Chapel Hill
- by April 8, 1975: Students charter Student Educational Broadcasting, Inc. to seek an FM license
- April 22, 1975: About 450 students rally in the Pit against proposed tuition increases
- by August 23, 1976: Chapel Hill and Carrboro make water conservation mandatory in the drought
- by January 19, 1976: The Orange County Board of Elections adds a second weekly voter registration day in Chapel Hill
- November 8, 1977: Bill Thorpe leads the voting for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
- October 24, 1977: Chapel Hill aldermen put off using noise meters to enforce the noise ordinance
- February 28, 1977: Chapel Hill aldermen require environmental impact statements with building permits
- March 1978: Chapel Hill aldermen delay the scaled-down Laketree subdivision for more environmental review
- August 27, 1978: Carrboro holds its second criterium bicycle race
- February 27-28, 1978: Chapel Hill and Carrboro send their town attorneys to defend student voter registration
- July 10, 1978: Chapel Hill aldermen refuse Carrboro a franchise to run its own buses into town
- November 7, 1978: Frank Frederick defeats Richard Batts, a Black Republican, for clerk of Superior Court
- May 2, 1978: Few of the Orange Committee's voter challenges hold up at the May primary
- February 7, 1978: The Orange County Board of Elections schedules voter registration on the UNC campus
- March 16, 1978: Mayor Wallace and the county Democratic chairman defend Gerry Cohen against an Orange Committee resolution
- July 23, 1978: Orange County Young Democrats rally for John Ingram at the Mad Hatter
- November 4, 1979: The South Orange Black Caucus splits its mayoral endorsement between Nassif and Cohen
- December 3, 1979: Chapel Hill Town Council appoints Joe Herzenberg to Gerry Cohen's seat
- September 19, 1979: Council member Gerry Cohen announces a run for mayor of Chapel Hill
- October 8, 1979: Chapel Hill Town Council accepts Gerry Cohen's resignation as he runs for mayor
- November 6, 1979: Joe Nassif is elected mayor of Chapel Hill
- December 3, 1979: Joe Nassif is sworn in as mayor of Chapel Hill
- 1979–1989: Town elections and bond votes, 1979–1989
- October 6, 1980: Orange County voter registration closes with a record single day
- Cohen, Phil 1 entry, 1982
In books and archives 1 heading
Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.
- Cohen, Norm, 1936- 1 work
In the historical records 2 records
2 deeds, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Search the name in every collection
