Norval Wallace Cook

Brief Life History of Norval Wallace

When Norval Wallace Cook was born on 30 September 1888, in Lodi, San Joaquin, California, United States, his father, James Douglas Cook, was 43 and his mother, Catharine Lamb, was 32. He married Pearl Blanche Hammond on 20 October 1909, in San Joaquin, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1920 and American Judicial Township, Sacramento, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 August 1965, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in East Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States.

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Norval Wallace Cook
1888–1965
Pearl Blanche Hammond
1887–1985
Marriage: 20 October 1909
Marjorie Claire Cook
1913–2007

Sources (13)

  • Norval W Cook, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Noval Wallace Cook, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953"
  • Norval Wallace Cook, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

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World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1909 · The NAACP is formed

Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.

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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