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Cook, Samuel A

soldier, farmer, manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 28, 1849, in Ontario. He enlisted as a private in company A, second Wisconsin cavalry, served under General Custer, and was mustered out at the close of the war.

He engaged in manufacturing, and moved to Neenah, Wis., in 1881. He was elected mayor of Neenah in 1889, and a member of the state legislature in 1891-92. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Cook, William Henry

physician, author, was born in 1832, in New York.

He is a physician of Cincinnati, and the author of Physio-Medical Surgery; Woman's Book of Health; Physio-Medical Dispensatory; Spermatorrhea; and Science and Practice of Medicine.

Cook, Zadock

congressman, was born in 1769. He was frequently in the legislature of Georgia; and was a representative in congress from 1817 to 1819.

Cooke, Anson S

farmer, educator, legislator, was born Aug. 13, 1849, in Lake county, Ill. In his youth he taught school and in 1872 settled in Kansas, where he was elected a state senator from the thirty-third district.

Cooke, Augustus Paul

naval officer, was born Feb. 10, 1836, in Cooperstown, N. Y. He served in the navy during the civil war, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1890 he was ordered to New York as president of the board of inspection of merchant vessels.

He retired from service in 1892.

Cooke, Bate

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1833; from 1839 to 1841 held the office of comptroller of New York, and was bank commissioner in 1840. He died in 1841.

Cooke, Mrs. Dorcas F

poet, was born May 25, 1839, in Somerset county, Maine. In 1888 she published, in conjunction with Mrs. Julia Ellen Jenkins, a volume of poems entitled Memories.

Cooke, Edward

clergyman, educator, college president, was born Jan. 19, 1812, in Bethlehem, N. H. From 1864 till 1874 he was principal of the Wesleyan academy at Wilbraham, Mass., and from that year till 1884 president of Claflin university and State Agricultural college at Orangeburg, S. C.

Cooke, Edward Dean

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1849, in Cascade, Iowa. He was elected a representative in the Illinois legislature in 1882 as a republican, and was a member of the judiciary committee and committee on banks and banking and chairman of the committee on elections. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress from what is known as the North Side district in the city of Chicago and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress.

Cooke, Eleutheros

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1787, in Granville, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1831 to 1833, and served for many years in the legislature of that state before and after entering congress. He died Dec. 27, 1865, in Sandusky, Ohio. He was the father of the distinguished bankers, Jay, Pitt, and Henry D. Cooke.

Cooke, George Willis

clergyman, lecturer, author, was born April 23, 1848, in Comstock, Mich. He is a unitarian clergyman of Lexington, Mass., who has done much excellent work in criticism, and has attained prominence as a lecturer. He is the author of George Eliot, a Critical Study; Ralph Waldo Emerson: his Life, Writings, and Philosophy; Poets and Problems, Studies of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning; Guide Book to Browning; and The Clapboard Trees Parish, Dedham, a History.

Cooke, Isabelle W

artist, poet, was born March 15, 1834, in Meriden, Conn. She is an instructor in painting and drawing and the author of a volume of poems entitled Tears and Victory.