Herbert Nelson Cook

Brief Life History of Herbert Nelson

When Herbert Nelson Cook was born on 8 July 1881, in Williamson Valley, Yavapai, Arizona, United States, his father, Joseph Stacey Cook, was 48 and his mother, Bertha Johanna Unfried, was 30. He married Dora Henrietta Miller on 23 November 1904, in Skull Valley, Yavapai, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona, United States in 1971 and lived in Supervisorial District 2, Mohave, Arizona, United States in 1940 and Kingman, Mohave, Arizona, United States for about 1 years. He died on 27 September 1974, in Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Herbert Nelson Cook
1881–1974
Dora Henrietta Miller
1886–1978
Marriage: 23 November 1904
Herbert Clifford Cook
1913–1999
Catherine Cook
1915–1997
Charles James Cook
1918–1988

Sources (33)

  • Herbert N. Cook, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Herbert Nelson Cook, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1940"
  • Herbert N. Cook, "United States Western States Marriage Index"

World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1884

Historical Boundaries 1884: Yavapai, Arizona Territory, United States 1912: Yavapai, Arizona, United States

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

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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