Brief Life History of Alvin Howell Barney
When Alvin Howell Barney Cook was born on 15 May 1874, in New Jersey, United States, his father, Noah Webster Cook, was 27 and his mother, Mary Emma Randolph, was 23. He married Genevieve Pearl Wood on 19 March 1899, in Port, Washita, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Elk Township, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, United States in 1930. He died on 1 February 1961, in Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Liberty Bell Cemetery, Dill City, Washita, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Alvin B Cook, "United States Census, 1930"
- Alvin B Cook, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Alvin Burney Cook, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1879
Thomas Edison had been seeking to create a more practical and affordable version of the lightbulb, primarily for home use. Edison had attempted several different materials, including platinum and other metals, before ultimately deciding on a carbon filament. On October 21, 1879, Edison finally carried out the first successful test of this new light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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