When John Henry Cook was born on 6 June 1877, in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States, his father, George Henry Cook, was 41 and his mother, Maria Elizabeth Robbins, was 38. He married Kaatye Delaney Stokes on 19 August 1901, in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 11 January 1949, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1878: Owyhee, Idaho Territory, United States 1879: Cassia, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Cassia, Idaho, United States
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
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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