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John B. Cook c1813 - 1886
Jessamine County KyArchives Biography

Author: Bennett H. Young

John B. Cook.

   In 1810 Dawson Cook, who was a native of King and Queen county, Virginia, removed to Nicholasville, bringing with him his son, John B. Cook, then four years of age. Early in life Mr. Cook entered business in Nicholasville, became a member of the Methodist church, and in all the relations of life acted well his part. Pie was kind, generous, thoughtful and courteous to his friends and neighbors. One characteristic of his life was his devotion to his church. For fifty-two years he was an earnest supporter of the Nicholasville Methodist church, and was rarely, if ever, absent from his seat in the sanctuary. He died in 1886, in the seventy-third year of his age.

   One of his sons, Rev. T. B. Cook, was adjutant of the Fifth Kentucky Confederate infantry, and later a distinguished Methodist divine. His sons, John, Edward, and Bush L. Cook, the latter proprietor of the Hotel Nicholas, and one daughter survive him. His piety and his patriotism combined with his kind and genial manners render him one of the best remembered citizens of Jessamine county.


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A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898.
By BENNETT H. YOUNG,
PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC.

S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR.

Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot  be measured in money, and should be preserved with faithfullest care.

LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898.


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