Brief Life History of Lamon Sylvantis
When Lamon Sylvantis Cook was born on 2 October 1907, in Saline, Illinois, United States, his father, Samuel Sylvantis Cook, was 33 and his mother, Cora Ludora Pemberton, was 32. He married Eva Bernice Deering on 22 August 1931, in Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Tate Township, Saline, Illinois, United States for about 20 years and Harrisburg Township, Saline, Illinois, United States in 1950. He died on 4 March 1989, in Harrisburg, Saline, Illinois, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, West End, Saline, Illinois, United States.
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- Lamon Cook, "United States Census, 1950"
- Lamon S. Cook, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Lamon Cook, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
1910 · Boy Scouts of America
When W. D. Boyce was visiting London, he encountered a boy that helped him find his destination. The boy refused the tip that Boyce offered to him and told him that he was just doing his daily good turn. Being inspired, Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America to help teach young men how to have an attitude of service always. Since its foundation, The Boy Scouts of America has become one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States. Around 110 million people have been participants at some time in their life. The BSA was established to help young people make better choices in life and showing selflessness by serving the community.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
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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