Louisa Cook
21 February 1851–
Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
The Life of Louisa
When Louisa Cook was born on 21 February 1851, in Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Samuel Henry Cook, was 27 and her mother, Anna P Cochrane, was 26. She lived in Milton, Saratoga, New York, United States for about 5 years and Albany, Albany, New York, United States in 1865.
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Family Time Line
Samuel Henry Cook
1823–
Anna P Cochrane
1825–
Sarah Cook
1849–1849
Louisa Cook
1851–
Parents and Siblings
1823–Male
1825–Female
siblings
(2)
Sarah Cook
1849–1849Female
1851–Female
World Events (8)
1863
Age 12
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · Land in Groton Given to US Navy for Navy Station
Age 17
In 1868, the State of Connecticut gave the Navy 112 acres of land along the Thames River. This became the location of the Naval Submarine Base. It was designed to hold 1,400 men and 20 submarines. During WWII it was expanded to 497 acres.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
Age 31
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
1 English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Old English cōc (Latin coquus). There has been some confusion with Cocke .2 Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name, but in some cases a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ ( see McCook ).3 In North America Cook has absorbed examples of cognate and semantically equivalent names from other languages, such as German and Jewish Koch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Sources (3)
- Louisa Cook in household of Samuel H Cook, "United States Census, 1860"
- Louise Cook in household of Samuel H Cook, "New York State Census, 1865"
- Louise Cook in household of Samuel H Cook, "New York State Census, 1855"
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