Brief Life History of John Smith
When John Smith Cook was born on 11 September 1849, in Kittanning, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Lewis Cook, was 30 and his mother, Susanna Schrecengost, was 30. He married Anna Catherine Schaeffer on 21 July 1868. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Kittanning Township, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. He died on 3 December 1932, in Sharpsburg, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Glenshaw, Shaler Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- John S Cook in household of Susana Cook, "United States Census, 1860"
- John Smith Cook, "Find A Grave Index"
- J.S. Cook in entry for Ellis E. Cook and Nellie E. Lang, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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