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