John Henry Cook

Brief Life History of John Henry

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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Family Time Line

John Henry Cook
1877–1949
Kaatye Delaney Stokes
1879–1965
Marriage: 19 August 1901
Kerm Cook
1901–1901
George Seber Cook
1902–1970
William Sern Cook
1905–2001

Sources (26)

  • Joley H Cook in household of Hettie Marvel, "United States Census, 1940"
  • John Joseph Lehtonen, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • John H Cook, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"

World Events (8)

1878

Historical Boundaries 1878: Owyhee, Idaho Territory, United States 1879: Cassia, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Cassia, Idaho, United States

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

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.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

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.

Name Meaning

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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