Brief Life History of Wesley
When Wesley Cook was born in 1857, in Blue Creek, Adams, Ohio, United States, his father, James Cook, was 39 and his mother, Harriett Rebecca Hultz, was 34. He had at least 1 daughter with Alice Evans. He lived in Jefferson Township, Adams, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 November 1889, at the age of 32.
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- Wesley Cook, "United States Census, 1870"
- William Cooke in entry for James D. Evans, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Wesly Cook in household of James Cook, "United States Census, 1880"
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1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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