Brief Life History of Hyrum Howland
When Hyrum Howland Cook was born on 6 May 1866, in Swan Creek, Rich, Utah, United States, his father, Phineas Wolcott Cook, was 46 and his mother, Ann Eliza Howland, was 42. He married Anna Catherina Vaterlaus on 24 May 1888, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 1900 and Byron, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 1910. He died on 26 December 1918, in Bridger, Carbon, Montana, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Cowley Cemetery, Cowley, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States.
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- Hyrum Cook in household of P W Cook, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Hyrum Howland Cook - birth-name: Child
- Hyrum Cook, "Wyoming Marriages, 1869-1923"
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1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
1870
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Rich, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Rich, Utah, United States
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.
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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