Cook, Theodore Pease – Cooke, Thomas Burrage
Cook, Theodore Pease
soldier, journalist, poet, was born Dec. 21, 1844, in Boston, Mass. He entered the army at the age of eighteen and served through the civil war, being finally on the staff of Gen. John C. Robinson. He was graduated at Columbia law school in 1867, but devoted himself to journalism in Utica.
During the presidential canvass of 1876 he wrote the Lives of Tilden and Hendricks. The best known of his poems are Blue-Beard and An Ode for Decoration Day.
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.
Cook, Zebedee
legislator, insurance manager, was born Jan. 11, 1786, in Newburyport, Mass. He was among the first to introduce into this country the system known as mutual insurance. He was made president in 1822 of the Eagle Insurance company, and held the office until 1828.
During the next ten years he developed his ideas so thoroughly that in 1838 he was invited to New York to become president of the Mutual safety insurance company. By his efforts the Isabella grape was introduced into New England. He procured the cuttings and began the cul- He served in the Massachusetts ture. legislature from 1835 till 1839. He died Jan. 24, 1858, in Framingham, Mass.
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, Henry D
journalist, merchant, was born Nov. 23, 1825, in Sandusky City, Ohio. The idea of a steamship line from New York to California by way of Panama was suggested by him.
He subsequently resided in California; had much to do with the shipping of the Pacific, and was the first to announce, through a despatch from the military governor of California to Washington, the discovery of gold in the Sacramento Valley. He returned to the east, and was associated with the United States Gazette, Sandusky Register, and the Ohio State Journal; was a presidential elector in 1856; in 1861 became a partner in the house of Jay Cooke and Co.; frequently visited Europe on business; and in 1870 was appointed the first governor of the District of Columbia, which office he resigned in 1873. He was the son of Eleutheros Cooke, a distinguished orator and congressman, and brother of Jay Cooke, the eminent financier. He died Dec. 29, 1881, in Georgetown, D. C.
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.
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, John Esten
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 3, 1830, in Winchester, Va.
He was a noted Virginia author who served in the confederate army during the civil war. He wrote much historical fiction, The Virginia Comedians being the most famous of his romances. He was the author of Leather Stocking and Silk; The Youth of Jefferson; Surry of Eagle's Nest; Wearing the Gray; My Lady Pokahontas; Henry St. John, reissued as Bonnybel Vane; Mohun, or the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins; Her Majesty the Queen; Pretty Mrs. Gaston; Stories of the Old Dominion; The Maurice Mystery; Mr. Grantley's Idea; Professor Pressensee; Virginia Bohemians; Hammer and Rapier; Hilt to Hilt, include the greater part of his work in fiction. He wrote also Life of General Lee; Stonewall Jackson, a Biography; and Virginia, a History of the People. He died Sept. 27, 1886, in Boyce, Va.
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, Mrs. Rose Terry
author, poet, was born in 1827 in Connecticut.
She was a New England writer well known both as a poet and a writer of short stories of notable excellence. She was the author of Poems by Rose Terry; Happy Dodd; Somebody's Neighbors; The Sphinx's Children and Other People's; Steadfast; and Huckleberries. In 1888 a complete collection of her poems was made, including the contents of her early volume and her later work in verse. The Two Villages is her best known poem, as it is one of her best. She died in 1892.
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.