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there, he was made brigadier-general, March 21, 1863. Governor Yates, on behalf of the people of the state, presented him a handsome sword. He was ordered with his brigade to the army of the Potomac and in the operations of that army he commanded three brigades, eleven batteries of artillery, and two regiments of cavalry. After Pope's defeat he was relieved at his own request and was ordered to report to General Pope, com- manding the military district of the northwest, and on Oct. 9, 1864, he was assigned to tlie com- mand of the military district of Illinois and was mustered out Aug. 24, 1865, a major-general of volunteers by brevet. He was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1868, and as chairman of the house committee on public grounds and buildings was influential in securing the appro- priation for the erection of the new state capitol at Springfield. He subsequently made his home in Ransom, Mich.

COOK, Joseph, lecturer, was born at Ticon- deroga, N.Y., Jan. 26, 1838; son of William Henry and Merett (Lamb) Cook; grandson of Warner Cook of New Milford, Conn., and a de- scendant of Francis Cook, one of the pilgrim fathers of Plymouth, Mass. He was prepared for college at Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., and after a partial course at Yale he entered Harvard, where he was grad- uated in 1865. He was graduated at Andover theological seminar}-, in 1868, preaching in various towns, prin- cipally at Lynn, Mass., from 1868 to 1871. The next two years were divided between studies at Halle, Leipzig, Berlin and Heidelberg, and travels in Southern Europe and in Egypt and Palestine. In 1873 he returned to the United States. He began a series of Monday noon lectures in Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass., in 1875, and continued them, with large audiences, for twenty years. In 1879 he added Thursday evening lectures in New York. The Boston lectures were accompanied by " Pre- ludes on Current Reform."' In 1880-82 he went around the world and delivered lectures in all the chief cities of the British Isles, India, Japan and Australia. In January, 1888, he established Our Day, a monthly reform magazine. He received the degree of LL.D. from Howard uni- versity, Washington, D.C. Besides many col- lections of lectures published in America and

repu'olishetl in England, his writings include: Biology (\St)\ Transicendentalism (XSll) : Ortho- doxy (1817) : Conscience (1878) ; Heredity (1878) ; Marriage (1878) ; Labor (1879) : Socialism (1880); Occident (1884) ; Orient (1886) : Religions Perils (1888). He died at Ticonderoga, N.Y., June24, 1901.

COOK, Joshua Flood, educator, was born in Shelby county. Ky., Jan. 14, 1834; son of W. F. and Lucy (Flood) Cook; grandson of Abram Cook and of Joshua Flood, and a descendant of Dr. Jeffrey Bordurant, and of the Flood and Jones families of Yirginia. His grandfather, Abram Cook, was a Baptist clergyman, born in Virginia, who labored in one Kentucky commu- nity for fifty years. Joshua was graduated at Georgetown college in 1858, and was ordained a Baptist minister in the same year. In 1859 he was elected president of the New Liberty female college, which position he held until September, 1861, when he M-ent south and remained there until the close of the civil war. On his return to Kentucky in 1865 he became pastor of a Baptist church at Eminence, Ky., and in September, 1866, was elected president of La Grange college. Mo. He raised the money for its completion, finished its buildings, paid its debt, and success- fully conducted the institution thirty years, being made president for life after twenty years' continuous service. In 1896 he retired from the presidency of La Grange college and was imme- diatelj' elected president of Webb City college. He received the degree of LL.D. from Baylor university in 1874.

COOK, Philip, representative, was born in Twiggs county, Ga., July 31, 1817; son of Maj. Philip and Anna (Wooten) Cook; and grandson of John and Martha (Pearson) Cook. He was graduated from Oglethorpe university and in law from the University of Virginia in 1840. He practised in Forsyth, Ga., 1841—42, and removed to Sumter county, later to Lanier and then to Oglethorpe county, where he continued his prac- tice till 1869. He then went to Americus and about 1885 settled on a plantation in Lee county. He was state representative, 1854, and senator, 1859-60 and 1863. In the civil war he was a private in the 4th Georgia regiment, and received promotion to the ranks of lieutenant, adjutant, lieutenant-colonel, colonel and brigadier-general. He was severely wounded at Malvern Hill and ChanceUorsville. His brigade led the assault on Fort Stedman and he was wounded after the stronghold had been taken. Upon the evacua- tion of Petersburg he was disabled and taken prisoner, and after four months was paroled. After his return to Georgia he was a member of the reconstructive state constitutional conven- tion and was elected in 1865 to represent his district in the 39th congress, but yvas not allowed.