Brief Life History of Charles Henry
When Charles Henry Cook was born on 16 April 1883, in Linwood, Portage, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Hiram Henry Cook, was 27 and his mother, Nettie Augusta Edwards, was 20. He lived in Wisconsin, United States in 1883.
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- Charles Henry Cook, "Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926"
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World Events (3)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1907 · Law Passed for Child Employment
The maximum hours for children to work were set to 55 per week.
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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