When Roxy Rena Cook was born on 9 December 1898, in Butler, Kansas, United States, her father, William Melone Cook, was 36 and her mother, Amanda E Cooper, was 33. She lived in Chelsea Township, Butler, Kansas, United States in 1900. She died on 28 December 1910, at the age of 12.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Middle English cok, coke, cook, couk, cuk(e) (Old English cōc) ‘cook’ or ‘seller of cooked foods’. See also Kew .
Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name (see 1 above), but in some cases a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cook’, such as German and Jewish Koch , Dutch Kook , Polish Kucharz and Kucharczyk , Slovenian and Croatian Kuhar , North German Kuk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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