Brief Life History of Charles Leo
When Charles Leo Cook was born on 1 June 1904, in Salem, Richardson, Nebraska, United States, his father, Charles August Cook, was 35 and his mother, Bertha Luetta Damon, was 21. He lived in Cheyenne, Nebraska, United States in 1920 and Chambers Election Precinct, Cheyenne, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died about 1985, in United States, at the age of 82.
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- Charles L Cook in household of Charles A Cook, "United States Census, 1930"
- Charles L Cook in household of Charles A Cook, "United States Census, 1940"
- Charles Cook in household of Charles A Cook, "United States Census, 1920"
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1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1906 · Licencing Butchers
A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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