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    Person Info
  • Name: Fritz KOHN
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 10 May 1873 in Bennisch, Austria (now Severomoravsky, Czech Republic) b
  • Baptism: 9 Oct 1901 in Pfarrkirche St Othmar, Modling, Austria c
  • Death: 23 Nov 1921 in Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Benedikt KOHN Birth: Abt 1824 in Austria Death: 4 Jul 1876 in Bennisch
  • Mother:
  • Mathilde FRANKEL Birth: 14 Sep 1845 in Oberglogau, Prussia Death: 24 May 1935 in Vienna, Austria

Family:
Marriage:
  • Ida LOWE on 9 Jan 1900 at Modling .m1
  • Ida LOWE Birth: 22 Feb 1877 in Budapest, Hungary Death: 19 Jan 1960 in Sarasota, Florida
Children:
  1. Richard John KERRY Birth: 28 Jul 1915 in Downing Road, Brookline, Massachusetts Death: 29 Jul 2000 in Boston, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. Reitwiesner, William Addams, Ancestry of Sen John Kerry, 2004. Available at http://www.wargs.com/political/kerry.html Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY].

Sources for birth and parent Information
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[Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY],
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[Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY],
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[Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY]
Sources for baptism Information
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[Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY],
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[Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY]
Sources for death Information
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[Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY]
Sources with Information about marriage to Ida LOWE
date:
[Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY],
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[Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY],
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[Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY]
Research Notes:
birth record among the Jewish births on the last folio of vol VII (1866-1873) of the Roman Catholic birth records of the Bennisch parish [Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY]

17 Dec 1901: by decree of Austrian Statthalterei in Vienna, name Kohn was officially changed to Kerry [Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY]

suicide by postol shot to the head in the men's lavatory of the Copley Plaza Hotel, 487 Boylston Street, Boston [Ref: Reitwiesner JohnKERRY]



Pedigree of Fritz KOHN
 /-----Benedikt KOHN
Fritz KOHN
 \-----Mathilde FRANKEL



Descendants of Fritz KOHN
1. Fritz KOHN m. Ida LOWE
m. Ida LOWE

2nd generation

2. Richard John KERRY m. Rosemary Isabel FORBES
m. Rosemary Isabel FORBES father: James Grant FORBES mother: Margaret Tyndal WINTHROP

3rd generation

3. John Forbes KERRY m1. Julia Stimson THORNE m2. Living SIMOES-FERREIRA
m. Julia Stimson THORNE father: Landon Ketchum Jr THORNE mother: Alice Smith BARRY
m. Living SIMOES-FERREIRA father: Jose SIMOES-FERREIRA mother: Irene THIERSTEIN