When Nora Elizabeth Cook was born on 15 October 1891, in Fall River, Greenwood, Kansas, United States, her father, William Melone Cook, was 29 and her mother, Amanda E Cooper, was 26. She married Leslie Owen Taylor on 11 December 1909, in Fredonia, Wilson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Cedar Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Bartlesville, Washington, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. She died on 8 January 1928, at the age of 36, and was buried in White Rose Cemetery, Bartlesville, Washington, Oklahoma, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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