Brief Life History of John Hubbard
When John Hubbard Cook was born on 2 January 1865, in Rusk, Cherokee, Texas, United States, his father, Francis Marion Cook, was 32 and his mother, Susan Catherine Starr, was 26. He married Julia Blanche Bailey on 18 October 1888, in Henderson, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 2, Navarro, Texas, United States in 1910 and Justice Precinct 3, Navarro, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 14 August 1926, in Bosque, Texas, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Walnut Springs, Bosque, Texas, United States.
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- John H Cook in household of Francis H Cook, "United States Census, 1870"
- John Cook, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- John Hubbard Cook, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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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.
1870 · Texas Is Restored to the Union
Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
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.
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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