Murray Cohen, who owned the Delphos Herald newspaper group, was born on Aug. 30, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York, to Ethel and Nathan Cohen. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Murray went on to earn his master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.
He purchased his first newspaper, The Delphos Herald, a weekly publication in northwestern Ohio, in 1962. Murray went on to buy more than a dozen weekly newspapers in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. His Wisconsin newspapers included the Vilas County News-Review in Eagle River, the Waushara Argus in Wautoma and The Three Lakes News.
Murray was passionate about the community newspaper business and was active for many years in the former Inland Press Association, now known as America’s Newspapers.
Murray died on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, at the age of 92. He was survived by his wife, Barbara Safran; two daughters, Roberta and Jennifer; and a stepson, Jared.
