Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin
When Benjamin Franklin Cook was born in 1835, in Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky, United States, his father, Alexander Cook, was 42 and his mother, Louisa Levicia Ball, was 42. He married Elizabeth Ann Abbott on 20 May 1857, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Vineyard Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States in 1870. In 1870, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as "farmer" (value of personal estate: $800.00) in Vineyard Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States. He died on 29 December 1876, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 41.
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- Benjamin F Cook, "United States Census, 1870"
- Benjamin F Cook, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Benjamin Cook in entry for Alice Dreyer, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1845
Historical Boundaries: 1845: Lawrence, Missouri, United States
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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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