James Cook (1821 - 1912)

Born 21 Jul 1821 in Locke, Cayuga County, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Permelia (Cole) Cook — married 2 Sep 1844 in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States

Husband of Mary A (Poole) Cook — married 10 Nov 1858 in Hancock County, Ohio, United States

Died 29 May 1912 at age 90 in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Note

Note: According to the 1860 Census, he, his wife Mary and 4 children, were all born in New York State. He was, but his children were born 1848 - 1860, and he was living in Ohio in 1833 with his parents. In the 1880 Census his wife was born in Ohio.

July 2011

His wives and children were sorted out using database '420 Angel'.

Occupation

Occupation: farmer

Date: SEP 1850

Place: USA, OH, Trumbull Cnty, Mecca Township

Marriage

Husband: James Cook

Wife: Mary A Poole

Child: Frank M Cook

Child: Gertrude Cook

Child: Frederick M Cook

Date: 10 NOV 1858

Place: USA, OH, Hancock Cnty

Census:

Date: JUN 1880

Place: USA, OH, Trumbull Cnty, Mecca Township

Note: As head with his family, father Nathan, a widower, age 80, and his sister Asa Jane Cook, a widow, age 60. His family was 2 sons, a daughter Gertrude, age 19, and a grand-daughter Flora, age 8, born 1872.

The census sheet did not give Flora's mother, but it is unlikely to be Gertrude who was only 11 years older than Flora. There may have been an older daughter than Gertrude.^[1]

Census:

Date: AUG 1860

Place: USA, OH, Trumbull Cnty, Mecca Township

Note: With his father as head, his wife and 4 children.^[2]

Husband: James Cook

Wife: Permelia Cole

Child: Mercy P Cook

Child: Emmeline Cook

Child: Sarah Cook

Date: 2 SEP 1844

Place: USA, OH, Ashtabula Cnty

Census:

Date: SEP 1850

Place: USA, OH, Trumbull Cnty, Mecca Township

Note: They were with his father Nathan, James' 2 siblings and their daughter Mercy.^[3]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 21 JUL 1821

Place: New York^[4][5][6][7]

Death

Death:

Date: AFT 1904

Place: Warren, Trumbull, Ohio^{[8][9][10][11]}

Event

Event:

Type: Census - 1880

Date: 17 JUN 1880

Place: Mecca, Trumbull, Ohio - family and father listed.^[12]

Event:

Type: Census - 1860

Date: 04 AUG 1860

Place: Living in Mecca, Trumbull, Ohio - his family and father listed.^[13]

Event:

Type: Census - 1850

Date: 25 SEP 1850

Place: Living with father in Mecca, Trumbull, Ohio^[14]

Event:

Type: Settler

Date: 1832

Place: Mosquito Creek, Mecca Township, Trumbull, Ohio - 11 when he arrived with parents.^[15]

Event:

Type: Census - 1840

Date: 1840

Place: Mecca, Trumbull, Ohio - listed in a list that includes family of father and grandfather^[16][17]

Marriage

Husband: James Cook

Date: 02 SEP 1844

Place: Ashtabula County, Ohio^[18]

Husband: James Cook

Date: 10 NOV 1858

Place: Hancock County, Indiana^[19]

Notes

Note N4Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Lewis Publishing Company of Chicago 1893 Page 324 James Cook James Cook, who has been identified with the interests of Mecca township, Trumbull County, Ohio, since May 1832, is ranked with the prominent and leading citizens of the township. Of his life we present the following brief sketch: James Cook was born in Locke, Cayuga County, New York, July 21, 1821. His father, Nathan Cook, a native of that same place was born in 1800, a son of James Cook, a native of Connecticut and a veteran of the Revolutionary war. The latter was one of the early settlers of Cayuga County, New York, whence he and his wife, who before her marriage was a Miss Brown, came out to the Western Reserve and settled in Mecca township, where they both died, and are buried. He lived to the advanced age of ninety. The names of their children are John, Nathan, Zachariah, Samuel, Amos, and Lois. Nathan Cook was reared and educated at Locke, New York, and at the age of nineteen years married Permelia Hadlock, daughter of James and Nancy Hadlock, her father being one of the old Tories of that county, her mother a native of Scotland. Her father and mother removed from New York to Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where they died at the ages of ninety-three and ninety-seven years respectively. Nathan Cook and his wife came out to Ohio and settled in Mecca township before any road had been cut through to their farm, the same farm, on which the subject of our sketch now lives. Here the mother died in April 1846, leaving a family of seven children, viz: Asa, a resident of Michigan; James, the subject of this sketch; Nathan, deceased; Lois, a resident of Hebron, Nebraska; Betsey, of Michigan; Joseph, deceased [CHERI's ANCESTOR]; and Uphema, of Iowa. The father of this family died November 18, 1888, aged eighty-eight years. He was a farmer by occupation, and in politics was first a Whig and afterward a Republican. James Cook was a lad of eleven years when he came with his parents to Ohio. Here he grew up and was educated. With the exception of three years spent at Pierpoint, Ashtabula, Ohio, he lived on his present farm since he was eleven years old. His home here is one of the most attractive rural places in this part of the country. The residence is beautifully located on a natural building site, is surrounded by a pretty lawn, and is shaded by tall pines and other evergreens. The farm comprises ninety acres and is situated very near the center of the township. Mr. Cook was married, September 2, 1844, in Ashtabula county, to Permelia Cole, who, like her husband was born in Cayuga county, New York. Her parents, Ezra and Mercy Cole are both deceased. She died in 1858, leaving one daughter living, Mrs. Mercy Fink of Mahoning County, Ohio, and two, Eiline and Sarah, deceased. November 10, 1858, Mr. Cook was married, in Hancock County, Indiana, to Miss Mary Poole, a native of Mecca township, this county, and a daughter of Robert and Margaret (Kissicker) Poole, her father a native of Maryland and her mother of Virginia. Her mother died January 28, 1892, at the age of eight-six years, her father having passed away some years ago in Hancock county, Indiana, aged seventy-two. Mr. and Mrs. Poole had twelve children, five sons and seven daughters. Two of the sons were soldiers in the Civil War. Mrs. Cook has one brother, Frank R. Poole, a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Cook have children as follows: Frank, a resident of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania; Gertrude, wife of W. Obrien, of Knoxville, Tennessee; and Fred, a book-keeper in Chicago, Illinois. Politically, Mr. Cook is a Republican. He has served as Township Trustee, and for the past fifteen years has been a member of the School Board. He is an Elder in the United Presbyterian Church. Few men in this vicinity are held in higher esteem than James Cook.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S6 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 Page: USA Census 1880 : Mecca, Trumbull, OH - page 285C, entry 867
2. ↑ Source: #S6 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 Page: USA Census 1860 : Mecca, Trumbull, OH - page 160, family 1241
3. ↑ Source: #S6 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 Page: USA Census 1850 : Mecca, Trumbull, OH - line 9, house 1857, family 1931
4. ↑ Source: #S812 Data: Text: Mecca Twp, Trumbull, Ohio - Pg 9., Cook, Nathan, 70, m, w, farmer, $3,600, born in NY; James, 49, m, w, farmer, $590, NY; Mary, 34, f, w, OH; Mercy, 22, f, w, OH; Emiline, 18, f, w, OH; Sarah, 17, f, w, OH; Frank, 12, m, w, OH; Gertrude, 8, f, w, OH.
5. ↑ Source: #S101 Page: Pg. 324 - James Cook Data: Text: James Cook was born in Locke, Cayuga County, New York, July 21, 1821. His father, Nathan Cook, a native of that same place was born in 1800, a son of James Cook, a native of Conneticut and a veteran of the Revolutionary war.
6. ↑ Source: #S398 Page: Pg. 864 Data: Text: . His children are: Mrs. McCauley, James, the custodian of his father's interests; Nathan, settled in Lincoln township, Cerro Gordo county, and died in 1867; Lois, Mrs. Ezra Scoville, of Hebron, Neb.; Betsey, Mrs. Helsel, of Hillsdale Co., Mich.; Joseph W., and Euphemia, now Mrs. Henry B. Ogram, of Kossuth County.
7. ↑ Source: #S32 Data: Text: Mecca Twp, Trumbull, Ohio - Pg 9., Cook, Nathan, 70, m, w, farmer, $3,600, born in NY; James, 49, m, w, farmer, $590, NY; Mary, 34, f, w, OH; Mercy, 22, f, w, OH; Emiline, 18, f, w, OH; Sarah, 17, f, w, OH; Frank, 12, m, w, OH; Gertrude, 8, f, w, OH.
8. ↑ Source: #S303 Page: 4 Jul 2003 Data: Text: Also, in my searching for James Edward Cook, I have a letter from Cedar Co courthouse in Iodeath of James Cook age 66, died died 8-17-1893--an American farmer, b in Ohio and lived in Iowa for 37 years, died at West Branch Iowa.
9. ↑ Source: #S854 Page: 4 Jul 2003 Data: Text: Also, in my searching for James Edward Cook, I have a letter from Cedar Co courthouse in Iodeath of James Cook age 66, died died 8-17-1893--an American farmer, b in Ohio and lived in Iowa for 37 years, died at West Branch Iowa.
10. ↑ Source: #S64 Page: Set's date of death, if birth info is correct in other sources, at some time after 1903/4 Data: Text: James Cook, who now resides at 112 Madison Avenue, this City is one of Trumbull County's old citizens, having moved to West Mecca with his parents, two brothers and four sisters, from Lock, Chychuga County, New York on May 18, 1832. Mr. Cook was then a boy of eleven years of age, and he has seen many changes take place in this county. ... He was married Sept. 3, 1844, to Miss Permilia Cole, and by that union three daughters were born, only one of whom is now living, Mrs. Mercia P. Fink, now living at Milton, Mahoning County, who is the eldest of three daughters. The two younger sisters died several years ago. The second daughter, Mrs. Emeline Thompson, died at New Castle, PA, and the youngest, Mrs. Sarah J. Peterson, died at Reed City, Michigan. In 1858 Mr.Cook had the misfortune to lose his wife. He was at that time living on the old homestead at Mecca as his mother had died a few years previous and at his father's request he returned to the old home, the other children having married and gone to homes of their own. Later he married Miss Mary A. Poole and together they cared for the aged father until he died at the age of 87 years, having been confined to his bed the last years of his life. Many of the older citizens will remember Mr. Cook's father as he held several township offices, such as township treasurer, school director, etc., and was ever honest and faithful. ... Previous to an attack of Pneumonia, from which he is now recovering, he walked down town and back to his home almost every day, and only a few months ago he walked from Warren to Milton, a distance of 14 miles, leaving home after his usual breakfast hour, and arriving at the home of his daughter at Milton about 1 o'clock. Mr. Cook though this walk quite an accomplishment for a man nearly 84 years old. His paternal grandfather, for whom he was named, fought with credit in the Revolutionary War, and his maternal grandfather was a tory.
11. ↑ Source: #S64 Page: Set's date of death, if birth info is correct in other sources, at some time after 1903/4 Data: Text: James Cook, who now resides at 112 Madison Avenue, this City is one of Trumbull County's old citizens, having moved to West Mecca with his parents, two brothers and four sisters, from Lock, Chychuga County, New York on May 18, 1832. Mr. Cook was then a boy of eleven years of age, and he has seen many changes take place in this county. ... He was married Sept. 3, 1844, to Miss Permilia Cole, and by that union three daughters were born, only one of whom is now living, Mrs. Mercia P. Fink, now living at Milton, Mahoning County, who is the eldest of three daughters. The two younger sisters died several years ago. The second daughter, Mrs. Emeline Thompson, died at New Castle, PA, and the youngest, Mrs. Sarah J. Peterson, died at Reed City, Michigan. In 1858 Mr.Cook had the misfortune to lose his wife. He was at that time living on the old homestead at Mecca as his mother had died a few years previous and at his father's request he returned to the old home, the other children having married and gone to homes of their own. Later he married Miss Mary A. Poole and together they cared for the aged father until he died at the age of 87 years, having been confined to his bed the last years of his life. Many of the older citizens will remember Mr. Cook's father as he held several township offices, such as township treasurer, school director, etc., and was ever honest and faithful. ... Previous to an attack of Pneumonia, from which he is now recovering, he walked down town and back to his home almost every day, and only a few months ago he walked from Warren to Milton, a distance of 14 miles, leaving home after his usual breakfast hour, and arriving at the home of his daughter at Milton about 1 o'clock. Mr. Cook though this walk quite an accomplishment for a man nearly 84 years old. His paternal grandfather, for whom he was named, fought with credit in the Revolutionary War, and his maternal grandfather was a tory.
12. ↑ Source: #S37 Page: Mecca, Trumbull, Ohio - Pg. 285 - No. 218; 225 Data: Text: James Cook, w, m, 59, Farmer, born in NY, father in NY, mother in NY; Mary A., w, f, 40, wife, keeping house, born in OH, father in Maryland; -- Frank M., w, m, 21, son, Ohio, NY; Gertrude, w, f, 19, dau., Ohio, NY; Fred M., w, m, 16, son, Ohio, NY; Floria, w., f., 8, grandchild, Ohio, unk; Nathan, w, m, 80, father, NY, Conn, Conn; Asa Jane, w. f, 60 sister, NY, NY, NY.
13. ↑ Source: #S32 Data: Text: 1860 Census, Mecca Township, Trumbull, Ohio - Pg.160; 1279, 1241, Nathan Cook, 60, m, farmer, $1,600, NY; James, 38, m, farmer, 300, NY; Mary, 21, f, Mercia, 12, f, Emaline, 9, f Sarah, 7, f, Francis, 6/12, m.
14. ↑ Source: #S25 Data: Text: Mecca, Trumbull County, Ohio - Dwelling No. 1859; Family No. 1931, Nathan Cook, 50, M, Farmer, $1800, New York James Cook, 29, M, Farmer, , New York Parmelia Cook, 33, F, New York Mercy P. Cook, 3, F, Ohio Joseph Cook, 18, M, Farmer, New York Eufehmia Cook, 13, F, New York.
15. ↑ Source: #S491 Page: Pg. 93 Data: Text: James Cook (Son of Nathan) James was 11 years old when his parents came to Mecca, where he was reared and educated. The farm on which he lived and later owned comprised 90 acres and was situated near the center of the township near Mosquito Creek. James married Permelia Cole, Sept 2., 1844, in Ashtabula County. She like her husband was born in Cayuga County, New York. Her parents were Ezra and Mercy Cole. Mrs. Permelia Cook died in 1858 leavin gone daughter living, Mrs. Mercy Fink of Mahoning County and two deceased, Emiline and Sarah. James then married Mary Poole, a native of this community, in Hancock County, Indianaon Nov. 10, 1858. Mary was the daughter of Robert and Kissicker Poole. Her father was a native of Maryland, and her mother a native of Virginia. James and Mary Cook's childredn were: Frank of Lawrence County, Penna., Gertrude Obrien of Knoxville, Tenn., and Fred of Chicago. Mr. Cook served as Township Trustee and a member of the school board. He was also an elder in the United Presbyterian Church.
16. ↑ Source: #S16 Data: Text: 1840 Census, Abstract extracted by Debbie Rider, Name # in household Cook, Amos 7 m 30-40 f -5 f -5 f 5-10 f 5-10 f 10-15 f-30-40 Cook, James 4 m 70-80 f 10-15 f 15-20 f 50-60 Cook, James 3 m-5 m 20-30 f 15-20 Cook, John 3 m 10-15 m 50-60 f 50-60 Cook, Nathan 9 m 10-15 m 15-20 m15-20 m 40-50 f -5 f 10-15 f 15-20 f 15-20 f 40-50 Cook, Zachariah 4 m 5-10 m 30-40 f 10-15 f 30-40.
17. ↑ Source: #S852 Data: Text: 1840 Census, Abstract extracted by Debbie Rider, Name # in household Cook, Amos 7 m 30-40 f -5 f -5 f 5-10 f 5-10 f 10-15 f-30-40 Cook, James 4 m 70-80 f 10-15 f 15-20 f 50-60 Cook, James 3 m-5 m 20-30 f 15-20 Cook, John 3 m 10-15 m 50-60 f 50-60 Cook, Nathan 9 m 10-15 m 15-20 m15-20 m 40-50 f -5 f 10-15 f 15-20 f 15-20 f 40-50 Cook, Zachariah 4 m 5-10 m 30-40 f 10-15 f 30-40.
18. ↑ Source: #S101 Page: Pg. 324
19. ↑ Source: #S101 Data: Text: November 10, 1858, Mr. Cook was married, in Hancock County, Indiana, to Miss Mary Poole, a native of Mecca township, this county, and a daughter of Robert and Margaret (Kissicker) Poole, her father a native of Maryland and her mother of Virginia. Her mother died January 28, 1892, at the age of eight-six years, her father having passed away some years ago in Hancock county, Indiana, aged seventy-two. Mr. and Mrs. Poole had twelve children, five sons and seven daughters. Two of the sons were soldiers in the Civil War. Mrs. Cook has one brother, Frank R. Poole, a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Cook have children as follows: Frank, a resident of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania; Gertrude, wife of W. Obrien, of Knoxville, Tennessee; and Fred, a book-keeper in Chicago, Illinois.

• Source: S6 Abbreviation: Family Search Pilot Title: Website pilot.familysearch.org/ Subsequent Source Citation Format: Website pilot.familysearch.org/ BIBL Website pilot.familysearch.org/.

• Source: S101 Title: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Publication: Name: Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1893; NOTESource Medium: Book
• Source: S16 Author: Records of the Bureau of the Census Title: 1840 Census Publication: Name: NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 Rolls, National Archives, Washington, DC;
• Source: S25 Author: Records of the Bureau of the Census Title: 1850 Census Publication: Name: (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 Rolls) National Archives, Washington DC;
• Source: S303 Author: Lauriejkn@aol.com Title: Email of Laurie King Newton NOTESource Medium: Electronic
• Source: S32 Title: 1870 Census Publication: Name: National Archives and Records Administration, M593, 1761 rolls, Washington DC: NARA;
• Source: S37 Title: 1880 Census NOTESource Medium: Book
• Source: S398 Title: History of Cerro Gordo County Publication: Name: 1896; Repository: #R27 NOTESource Medium: Book
• Repository: R27 Name: Two pages provided by the Cerro Gord Historical Society Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
• Source: S491 Author: Thomas J. Kachur, Dec 1972 Title: Mecca Publication: Name: Extracts courtesy of Debbie Ridder dlrider126@neo.rr.com; NOTESource Medium: Book
• Source: S64 Author: Grace C. Allison, Compiler and Editor; Arminta H. Fenstermaker, Ass't Editor Title: 19th Century Voices of Trumbull County, Ohio Publication: Name: Trumbull County Chapter, OGS; P.O. Box 309, Warren, OH, 44482-0309; NOTESource Medium: Book
• Source: S812 Title: 1870 Census
• Source: S852 Title: 1840 Census

Acknowledgments

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