Amelia Cohen

<p>The early Harrises were furniture brokers. This means they would have dealt in second-hand furniture. However, Moss Harris specialized in antique furniture and his company became one of the most prestigious dealers in London. He bought on behalf of Queen Mary, wife of King George V. The story is that if she came round to his shop in Holborn and admired any object, it was immediately sent round to her at the Palace, and she did not always pay for it. George Rigal(b. 1925) remembers being taken to their house on the edge of Hampstead Heath some time before 1936 and seeing signed photographs of the Queen in the drawing-room. Moss Harris was the member of Harris family who became wealthy, and his granddaughter says that at one stage he was giving financial assistance to up to a hundred of his less wealthy relatives.</p><p>&nbsp;(Adapted from a letter from George Rigal)</p>

<font size="3"><font face="georgia,palatino"><strong>Ref:&nbsp; JEWISH CHRONICLE, London</strong><br><br><em>4 November 1887 <br>East London Synagogue.&nbsp; This synagogue was the scene of a pleasing ceremony on Wednesday last week on the occasion of ther marriage of Miss Amelia Cohen, a daughter of Mr George Cohen of Bow, a gentleman well known for his many acts of charity and benevolence in the East End of London, with Mr Moss Harris. The bride being the sister-in-law of Mr Lewis Levy, one of the Wardens of the Synagogue . the service was fully choral and the choir augmented for the occasion.&nbsp; The synagogue was tatsefully decorated with plants and exotics and the crowded builing presented an animated aspect.&nbsp; The officiating ministers were the Revs. S. Singer (of the New West End Synagogue), J.F. Stern and W. Rosenstein, the&nbsp; latter reading the afternoon service and&nbsp; the choral parts of the&nbsp; ceremony.&nbsp; Mr B. Elkin ably presided at the organ.&nbsp; Mr George Cohen presented gifts to the choristers</em>.</font></font>