Brief Life History of Andrew Johnson
When Andrew Johnson Cook was born on 15 March 1918, in Madison, Boone, West Virginia, United States, his father, Floyd A Cook, was 48 and his mother, Minerva Richmond, was 39. He lived in Crook, Boone, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Crook District, Boone, West Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 13 February 2002, in Lewis, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Jane Lew, Lewis, West Virginia, United States.
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- Andrew Cook in household of Floyd Cook, "United States Census, 1940"
- Andrew Cook, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Andrew Cook in household of Floyd Cook, "United States Census, 1920"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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