When Frederick Charles Cook was born on 22 August 1882, in Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States, his father, Jacob Cook, was 40 and his mother, Ellen Schwieger, was 33. He married Anna Louise Morse on 17 October 1907, in Kanabec, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Arthur Township, Kanabec, Minnesota, United States in 1920 and Whited Township, Kanabec, Minnesota, United States in 1930. He died on 28 December 1960, in Mora, Kanabec, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Mora, Kanabec, Minnesota, United States.
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After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
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A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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 .
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