Brief Life History of Hannah Marie
When Hannah Marie Cook was born on 4 May 1879, in Illinois, United States, her father, Halvor Emil Cook, was 40 and her mother, Anna Riis, was 34. She married Willis Brimhall Phillips about 1915, in Mission Township, LaSalle, Illinois, United States. She lived in Mission Township, LaSalle, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Sandwich, DeKalb, Illinois, United States in 1950. In 1910, at the age of 31, her occupation is listed as trained hospital nurse. She died on 4 July 1958, in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Millington, Kendall, Illinois, United States.
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- Hannah Phillips, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Hannah M. - Published information: birth-name: Hannah Cook
- Hannah M Phillips, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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