Andrew Stevenson Cook

Male1838–1 February 1893

Brief Life History of Andrew Stevenson

When Andrew Stevenson Cook was born in 1838, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Cook, was 38 and his mother, Margery Stevenson, was 33. He lived in Washington, Tazewell, Illinois, United States in 1850. He died on 1 February 1893, in Sparta, Randolph, Illinois, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Oakdale, Washington, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Cook
1800–
Margery Stevenson
1805–1855
Andrew Stevenson Cook
1838–1893
James Cook
1843–

Sources (1)

  • Andrew S Cook in household of James Cook, "United States Census, 1850"

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Siblings (2)

World Events (8)

1840

Age 2

Historical Boundaries: 1840: Randolph, Illinois, United States

1846

Age 8

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Age 25

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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