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Cooke, J. Edmund V – Cookins, James

Cooke, J. Edmund V

author, poet, was born June 5, 1866, in Canada. He has attained prominence as a lecturer and platform reader of his own writings. He is the author of A Patch of Pansies, a volume of his collected poems.

Cooke, Jay

financier, was born Aug. 10, 1821, in Sandusky, Ohio. In 1861 he started the banking firm of Jay Cooke and Company; is the owner of Ogontz college, and also owns Gibraltar Island and its beautiful mansion.

Cooke, Joseph P

congressman, was born in 1730. He was a delegate from Connecticut to the continental congress from 1784 to 1788. He died in 1816, in Danbury, Conn.

Cooke, Josiah Parsons

chemist, author, was born Oct. 12, 1827, in Boston, Mass. He was a chemist of distinction who was professor of chemistry at Harvard university from 1850, and lectured in many places on scientific topics. He was the author of Religion and Chemistry; Scientific Culture; Elements of Chemical Physics; Chemical Problems and Reactions; Principles of Chemical Philosophy; The New Chemistry; The Credentials of Science the Warrant of Faith; and Laboratory Practice. He died in 1894.

Cooke, Martin Warren

lawyer, author, was born March 2, 1840, in Whitehall, N. Y. He has been practitioner in the United States courts; and in the United States supreme court; and is also the official attorney of the university of Rochester. He is the author of a work entitled The Human Mystery in Hamlet.

Cooke, Nicholas

governor, was born Feb. 3, 1717, in Providence, R. I.

He was deputy-governor of the state in 1775; and governor from that date to 1778.

He died Sept. 14, 1782, in Providence, R. I.

Cooke, Nicholas Francis

physician, author, was born Aug. 25, 1829, in Providence, R. I. He was a prominent physician of Chicago, and the author of Satan in Society; and Antiseptic Medication. He died Feb. 1, 1885, in Chicago, Ill.

Cooke, Parsons

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 18, 1800, in Hadley, Mass.

He was a congregational clergyman of Lynn, strongly Calvinistic in doctrine and controversially inclined. He was the author of History of German Anabaptism; and A Century of Puritanism and a Century of Its Opposites. He died Feb. 12, 1864, in Lynn, Mass.

Cooke, Philip Pendleton

lawyer, poet, was born Oct. 26, 1816, in Martinsburg, Va. He was a Virginia lawyer whose poetry was once very much admired, and whose Florence Vane still lingers in the anthologies. He was the author of The Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems. He died Jan. 20, 1850.

Cooke, Philip St. George

soldier, author, was born June 13, 1809, near Leesburg, Va. He was a brigadier-general in the United States army who reured in 1873. He was the author of Scenes and Adventures in the Army; Handy Book for United States Cavalry; Cavalry Tactics; and Conquest of New Mexico and California. He died in 1895.

Cooke, Thomas Burrage

lawyer, banker, jurist, congressman, was born in 1780 in Northford, Conn. He became a judge of the court of common pleas, was a representative in congress from New York from 1811 to 1813, and served in the New York legislature in 1838 and 1839.

He was for many years president of the Catskill bank, and was one of the earliest projectors of railroads in this country.

He died in Catskill, N. Y.

Cookins, James

artist, was born about 1835 in Terre Haute, Ind. He has much talent as a landscape painter, and his illustrations of fairy tales show great power of invention.