Brief Life History of James Henry
When James Henry Cook was born on 14 January 1840, in Comstock, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, his father, Henry Freeman Cook, was 25 and his mother, Sophronia Strobridge, was 26. He married Malinda Wilcox on 11 May 1867, in Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Alberta, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1901. He died on 6 May 1906, in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 66, and was buried in Cardston Cemetery, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
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- James Cook in household of Frances Cook, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: James Henry Cook - Church record: Society membership: birth: 14 January 1840; Comstock, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
- Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1993
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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