MILLER CO, AR - JOSEPH E. COOK - Bio

From _The Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas_, 
Published 1890 by Goodspeed.  Chicago, Nashville, and St. Louis:  
The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1890

Submitted by: Becky Hargett <bhargett@cityscape.net>

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Joseph E. COOK, attorney, Texarkana, Ark.  Mr. Cook, an esteemed member of 
the legal profession of Texarkana, was born in what is now Nevada County, Ark., 
on May 30, 1861, and is the son of John and Cornelia (CHRISTOPHER) COOK, 
natives respectively of Alabama and Virginia.  The father was an attorney by 
profession and ranked among the noted men of his calling.  He was prosecuting 
attorney at the time of his death, which occurred in 1884.  He came to this State 
when but a boy, and was admitted to the bar at Camden, Ark., just after the war.  
He served as captain during the late unpleasantness, but was known as Col. COOK.  
He died in Texarkana in 1882, but the mother is yet living.  They were the parents 
of a large family of children, six of whom survive, Joseph E. being, the eldest of 
the family.  The latter was reared at Lewisville and Texarkana, receiving a good
education, and subsequently attended the University of Fayetteville, Ark.  He 
graduated at Poukeepsie, N. Y. in the latter part of 1881, and later attended law 
school at Little Rock, being admitted to the bar in 1883.  He then began practicing 
at Texarkana, where he has built up a large, lucrative practice and is one of the 
prominent attorneys of the place.  He has a very fine library.  He was married in 
1886 to Miss May YOUNG, and they have two interesting children:  Joe E., Jr. and
Gilbert.  He is a member of the K. of P.
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