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Cook, Clarence Chatham

journalist, author, was born Sept. 8, 1828, in Dorchester, Mass. He is an art critic of New York city, and editor of The Studio.

He has edited Lübke's History of Art, and published also The House Beautiful; Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks; and The Central Park.

Cook, George Hammell

educator, author, was born Jan. 5, 1818, in Hanover, N. J. He was a professor of geology at Rutgers college and state geologist, whose only published work is The Geology of New Jersey. He died Sept. 22, 1889, in New Brunswick, N. J.

Cook, Joel

journalist, author, was born in 1842, in Pennsylvania. He is a Philadelphia journalist, and financial editor of the Public Ledger. He is the author of Brief Summer Rambles near Philadelphia; An Eastern Tour at Home; A Holiday Tour in Europe; England, Picturesque and Descriptive; and The Siege of Richmond.

Cook, John

soldier, legislator, was born June 12, 1826, in Belleville, Ill. In 1854 he was elected mayor of Springfield, Ill.; two years later became sheriff of Sangamon county, and in 1858 was appointed quartermaster-general of Illinois. He became a general during the civil war.

In 1868 he was a member of the Illinois state legislature, and was instrumental in securing the second appropriation for the erection of the new state house.

Cook, John C

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1846, in Seneca county, Ohio. He settled in Iowa; and in 1878 was elected judge of the sixth judicial district. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-seventh congress. was

Cook, John P

congressman, was born in New York. On taking up his residence in Iowa, he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.

Cook, John Williston

educator, college president, was born April 20, 1846, in Oneida county, N. Y. He graduated from the Illinois State university, in which institution he was an instructor from 1868-90, when he was appointed president.

Cook, May Amy

pianist, was born Dec. 4, 1869, in Paw Paw, Mich. She has studied under private teachers, and spent three years in Berlin during 1891-94. She has attained prominence as a concert pianist; was organist at the First Methodist church of Portland, Ore., during 1889-91; and now gives recitals and piano instruction in that city. con-

Cook, Orchard

merchant, gressman. He was a merchant by occupation, and for some years sheriff of Lincoln county, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1805 to 1811.

Cook, Philip

soldier, state senator, congressman, was born 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, and was elected to the thirty-ninth congress, but not allowed to take his seat. He was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.

Cook, Richard Briscoe

clergyman, author, was born in 1838, in Maryland. He is a baptist clergyman of Wilmington, Del., and the author of The Story of the Baptists in All Ages and Countries.

Cook, Russell S

clergyman, was born March 16, 1811, in New Marlborough, Mass. He devoted himself to the service of the American Tract society; in 1839 was appointed one of its corresponding secretaries, and labored as such for eighteen years in New York city. He died Sept. 4, 1864, in Pleasant Valley, N. Y.