Brief Life History of Joshua Byrom
When Joshua Byrom Cook was born on 27 March 1878, in Washington, Washington, Utah, United States, his father, Joshua Holden Cook, was 20 and his mother, Elizabeth Maria Bybee, was 17. He married Minnie Aurilla Norton on 5 September 1900, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. He lived in Silver Reef, Washington, Utah, United States in 1880 and Election Precinct 4 Bicknell, Wayne, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 2 January 1910, in Delta, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Lyman Cemetery, Lyman, Wayne, Utah, United States.
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- Joshua B Cook in household of Joshua H Cook, "United States Census, 1880"
- Joshua B Cook, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Joshua Byrom Cook, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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Brief life sketch of Joshua Byron Cook [1878-1910 KWV5-9KJ]
My brother Byron had a very short married life and part of it was deeply sad. He married Minnie Norton [Minnie Aurilla Norton Cook 1881-1906 KWV5-9K2] and they were very much in love, but their happy …
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