Margaret Eleanor Cook

Brief Life History of Margaret Eleanor

When Margaret Eleanor Cook was born on 29 May 1911, in California, United States, her father, Frank William Cook, was 24 and her mother, Minnie Elizabeth Tupper, was 24. She married Jack W Anderson on 15 February 1929, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States. She lived in Pasadena Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She registered for military service in 1945. She died on 30 August 1985, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Lewis Allen Brewer
1912–1998
Margaret Eleanor Cook
1911–1985
Marriage: 19 December 1934

Sources (11)

  • Margaret E Brewer, "United States Census, 1950"
  • Margaret E Cook, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"
  • Margaret E Cook, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"

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World Events (8)

1912 · The Girl Scouts

Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.

1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment

The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

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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