When Charles Alvin Cook was born on 13 February 1859, in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States, his father, Charles Croom Cook, was 33 and his mother, Harriet Amanda Burnham, was 26. He married Katie M Gordon on 11 May 1881, in Santa Clara, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Election Precinct 400 Columbia, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1920 and Parkrose, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1930. He died on 9 October 1939, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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The Homestead Act of 1862 gave each citizen 160 acres of land. The qualified applicants were required to build a home and cultivate the land for five years.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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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