Brief Life History of Charles Lafayette
When Charles Lafayette Cook was born on 7 September 1873, in Calaveras, California, United States, his father, James Douglas Cook, was 28 and his mother, Catharine Lamb, was 17. He married Julia Ann DeValle about 1902, in California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Jenny Lind, Calaveras, California, United States in 1900 and Jenny Lind Judicial Township, Calaveras, California, United States in 1910. He died on 10 November 1941, in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 68.
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- Charles Cook, "United States Census, 1910"
- Charles Lafayette Cook, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Charles Lafayette Cook, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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.
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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