When John Lindsey Cook was born on 10 December 1870, in Jumbo, Izard, Arkansas, United States, his father, Dr William Pinkney Cook, was 23 and his mother, Amanda E Smith, was 23. He married Mary Jane Rosa Vest on 2 November 1893, in Izard, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Mangum, Greer, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and Brinkman, Greer, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. He died on 30 March 1950, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Historical Boundaries - 1873: Izard, Arkansas, United States
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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