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Cook, John C, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was bom Dec. 26, 1846, in Seneca county, Ohio. He settled in Iowa; and in 1878 was elected judge of the sixth judicial district. In 1883-85 he was a representative from

Iowa to the forty-eighth congress. Cook, John D., lawyer, jurist. In 1820-23 he was associate justice of the state supreme court of Missouri, when he resigned. He died in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Cook, John Henry, business man, inventor, was born Feb. 24, 1859, in Durham, N.Y. He was educated at Eastman's business college; and for many years was general ma,nager in the iron business, in which he is still interested in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has invented numerous appliances used in the iron business; and has filled several positions of trust and honor. Cook, John P., congressman, was bom in New York. In 1853-55 he was a representative from Iowa to the thirty-third congress.

He

died in Iowa. Cook, John Williston, educator, lecturer, college president, author, was born April 30, 1 844, in Oneida county, N.Y. He graduated from the Illinois state

normal university;

re-

degree

of

ceived

the

A.M. from Knox college; and received the degree of LL.D. from Blackburn university and also from, the university of Illinois. In 1865' 66 he was principal of the public schools; in 1866-90 he was a teacher in the Illinois state normal university; and in 1890-99 president of that institution. In 1880 he was president of Illinois state teachers' association; and in 1896 was president of the national educational association. Since 1870 he has been a lecturer on educational subjects. He is part author of Normal Series of Arithmetics.

Cook, Joseph, lecturer, author, was bom Jan. 26, 1838, near Ticonderoga, N.Y. In 1874 lie began a series of Monday lectures in Boston, on the relations of religion and science; and subsequently delivered them principal in the cities of the United States. has given He lectures

throughout the principal countries of Europe, and in India, China, Japan, Austra-

and the Sandwich He was the author of The Boston Monday Lectures, in ten volumes; and Current Keligious Perils, with Other Addresses on Leading Reforms. He died June 25, 1901, lia,

Islands.

in Whitehall, N.Y.

Cook, Joseph Tottenhan, physician, surwas born in Ludlowville, N.Y. He was educated at the Buffalo classical school; in 1881 graduated with the degree of M.D. from the Homceopathic hospital college of Cleveland, Ohio; and subsequently studied He has been presiin London and Vienna. dent and secretary of the medical and surgical staff of the Buffalo homoeopathic hospital; president of the Buffalo association sons of the revolution; president of the sons of veterans of the civil war; and president of the Buffalo society of Vermonters.

geon,

Cook, Lemuel, soldier, was born in 1764 in Plymouth, Conn. He entered the army at the age of seventeen, participated in the campaign against Cornwallis in Virginia, and received an honorable discharge at the close of the war, signed by General Washington, which he retained until his death. He died May 20, 1866, in Clarendon, N.Y. Cook, Marc, journalist, author, poet, was born in 1854 in Rhode Island. He was the author of The Wilderness Cure; and Vandyke Brown Poems. He died Oct. 4, 1882, in Utica, N.Y.

Cook, Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Duncan, author, poet, was born July 23, 1806. She was a linguist, and translated several works from

the

German and French. Among these were

from the The Undivine Comedy, and Other Poems, by Count Sigismund Krasinski, translated from the Polish through the German and French; and Life of Joan of Are. She Liszt's Life of Chopin, translated

French;

died Sept. 15, 1874, in Hoboken, N.J. Cook, Melville Thurston, educator, botanist, author, born Sept. 20, 1869, in Coffeen, 111. Since 1907 he has been plant pathologist in the Delaware agricultural experiment station at Newark. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. In 1904-06 he was chief of the department of plant pathology and economic etomology in the Cuban department of agriculture.

Cook,

Orchard,

merchant,

congressman,

was born

in Massachusetts. He was for some sheriff of Lincoln county, Mass. In

years 1805-11 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the ninth, tenth and eleventh congresses. He died in Massachusetts. Cook, Philip, soldier, state senator, congressman, was bom July 31, 1817, in Twiggs county, Ga. He was elected to the state senate in 1859, 1860 and 1863. He entered the confederate service in 1861 as a private; and rose to be brigadier-general. He was a member of the state convention of 1865. He was elected to the thirty-ninth congress, but not allowed to take his seat. In 1873-83 he was a representative to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat. He died May 24, 1894, in Georgia. Cook, Richard Briscoe, clergyman, author, was bom Nov. 11, 1838, in Baltimore, Md. He is a baptist clergyman of Wilmington,