Brief Life History of Herbert Clifford
When Herbert Clifford Cook was born on 12 December 1913, in Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona, United States, his father, Herbert Nelson Cook, was 32 and his mother, Dora Henrietta Miller, was 27. He married Helen Jones on 13 October 1934, in Holbrook, Navajo, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Mayer, Yavapai, Arizona, United States in 1920 and Supervisorial District 2, Mohave, Arizona, United States for about 5 years. He died on 26 December 1999, in Milford, Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Milford, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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- Clifford Cook in household of Dora H Cook, "United States Census, 1930"
- Herbert Clifford Cook, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1930"
- Herbert Clifford Cook, "Arizona, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1937 · The Neutrality Act
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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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