Alonzo Gerry Cook (1839 - 1932)

Born 1839 in Maine

Died 1932 at about age 93 in Olympia, WA, USA

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Biography

Alonzo Cook was a Californian.

In 1874 the Cooks bought 160 acres of land that was sold secondhand from the once-dominant Able Stearns Ranch. The land covered what is now the area of Lampson Street to Garden Grove Boulevard and from Euclid/Main Street to Nutwood Street. There were only a few hundred people living on farms around the area at the time.

Alonso Cook's early jobs included serving as a probate judge in the Idaho Territory, working as an attorney for the state of Washington, and also practicing as a physician. While in Vancouver, Washington, the Cook family resided briefly in the historic Charles Brown House, built in 1866, possibly by Alonzo himself. The unique French Second Empire type architecture of the house suggests Alonzo may have built it since this type of construction typically hails from where Alonzo came from, the east coast. French Second Empire architecture is rare on the west coast.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Cook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Grove,_California