Jesse Moore Cook1,2

M, #2, b. 12 September 1823, d. 17 September 1896
Last Edited: 3 May 2024
Charts:
Ancestors of Edgar Scudder Cook
Pedigree of Edgar Scudder Cook
Descendants of Daniel Cook

Parents:

Father: Daniel Cook3,2 b. 16 Jul 1780, d. 20 Jul 1837
Mother: Keziah Smith (#61)3,2 b. 7 Oct 1784, d. 19 Jan 1866

Family 1:

Sarah Smith Scudder b. 10 Aug 1828, d. 3 Feb 1858

Children:

Henry Clay Cook+3 b. 10 Nov 1848, d. 1912
Edgar Scudder Cook+ 3 b. 28 Aug 1851, d. 4 Mar 1917
Catherine Scudder Cook3 b. 28 Dec 1853
Sarah Cook3 b. Dec 1856

Family 2:

Catherine G. Scudder b. 4 Sep 1832, d. 20 Aug 1889

Children:

Carrie B. Cook3 b. 27 Oct 1860, d. 15 Jun 1875
Mary E. Cook3 b. 23 Feb 1862, d. 22 Feb 1883

Notes

  • Census*: 1870; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania
  • Occupation*: 1871; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania; Firm: Cain, Hacker & Cook5
  • Census: 1880; Fairmont, Somerset Co., Maryland
  • Note*: 19 September 1896; Obituary of Jesse M Cook in Weekly Advocate, Pottstown Pa., Sat 9/19/1896: "Jesse M. Cook, aged about 72 years, died at his home in Princess Ann, Maryland, Thursday morning...Deceased formerly resided here and was a member of the George J. Newton & Co. coal company..."6
  • Note: "Jesse M. Cook, the father of Edgar S. Cook, was born and raised in New Jersey and received his education at Lafayettee college. At nineteen years of age he came to Philadelphia, and shortly afterwards, in connection with a Mr. Moore, established and operated a line of omnibusses. Later he withdrew from the omnibus business to become a member of the firm of Cain, Hacker & Cook, which dealt extensively in the mining and selling of Schuykill country anthracite coal, until President Gowan, of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad company, absorbed nearly all of the coal interests in the Schuykill country anthracite region. When Mr. Gowan came in control of the coal trade, Mr. Cook removed to the eastern shore of Maryland and engaged in the small fruit business there on a farm which he had purchased about the close of the late Civil War. After ten years spent actively and successfully as a small fruit raiser and dealer, he retired from active business and still resides in Maryland. While a coal operator in Schuykill country, Mr. Cook was also a manufacturer of pig iron at Monocacy, Berks county. He has been successively a Whig and Republican in politics, and is a Chapter and Commandery Mason, and a consistent member of the Presbyterian church, having been an elder for many years of the Tenth and Arch Street church of Philadelphia. Mr. Cook was born September 23, 1821, and has been not only a successful, but also a useful business man. He married Sarah Scudder, whose father, John Scudder, was a native and farmer of New Jersey. To their union were born six children, of whom four are living: Henry C., of Philadelphia; Kate S., wife of George H. Potts; Sallie A., who married Dr. John Dale, of Princess Ann county, Maryland; and Edgar S., whose name appears at the head of this sketch. The two children who died were: Carrie B., aged sixteen, and May E., who was twenty years of age."7

Citations

  1. [S78] Cook, Lewis D., "Anthony Cook of Ulster County, New York, and his Descendants in Mercer County, New Jersey", The American Genealogist Vol 47 Oct 1971, pp. 193-203, Vol 48 Jan 1972, pp. 51-55, Vol 48 Apr 1972, pp. 101-111: Vol. 48, p. 104.   Cook--AnthonyCookOfUlster.pdf
  2. [S87] Cook, Lewis D., "The Smith Family of Bedford, N.Y. and Maidenhead, N.J.", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vol 46 pp. 49-61 & 122-132 (May 1971).   Cook--Smith-Family-of-Bedford.pdf
  3. [S78] Cook, Lewis D., "Anthony Cook of Ulster."
  4. [S294] Mercer Co., Pa., Gravestone inscriptions, Mercer County, New Jersey : from Presbyterian churchyards in Ewing and Pennington, and the "New Side" Presbyterian Churchyard in Pennington, 1775-1900; FHL Microfilm 441467 Item 2, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.   Mercer-Co--Presbyterian-Gravestone-Inscriptions--441467.pdf
  5. [S510] United States city directories--Philadelphia, Pa.; (New Haven, Conn.: Research Publications, 198-), 290, Gospill's City Directory 1871 & 1875.
  6. [S531] Weekly Advocate. Pottstown, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. Clippings from Mike Osiol.
  7. [S543] Wiley, Samuel T.,editor, Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with an introductory historical sketch (Phila.: Biographical Publ. Co., 1896. Viewed on HeritageQuest., ), p. 98.