Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Cook, Elijah Augustus 1852 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

ELIJAH AUGUSTUS COOK

    Numbered among the most substantial and progressive citizens of Winters is
Mr. Cook, who has been an orchardist in Yolo county for the past thirty-two
years. A native of Illinois, Mr. Cook's birth occurred October 17, 1852, in
Greene county, where his parents, Morris and Mary (Gleason) Cook, natives of
Ireland, settled in an early day. In 1859 the family removed to Grundy county,
Mo., locating on the Grand river, near Spickard, in which section our subject
received his education, later assisting his father on the farm. At the age of
twenty-two he went to near Grinnell, Poweshiek county, Iowa, where he farmed for
two years, going thence to Austin, Minn., in which locality he conducted a farm
until 1877, when he came to Yolo county, Cal. Soon after this, however, he
removed to Jackson county, Ore., where for three years, he operated a mining and
milling business. In 1880, he returned to Yolo county, where he purchased
twenty-seven and one-half acres, later adding fifty-eight acres to his holdings,
and at present is the owner of ninety-six acres of land two miles west of
Winters. Fifty acres of his property is devoted to orchard, producing in 1911
six tons of dried fruit and one and one-half tons of dried prunes.

   Mr. Cook was united in marriage in  Sacramento, June  6, 1894, with Miss
Elizabeth Eyerly, a native of Springfield, Ohio, and to their, union three
children were born, namely: Morris E., a senior in the Winters high school;
Helen, Elizabeth H., and Samuel K.

   Mr. Cook is an active member of Damocles Lodge No. 33, K. of P., and as a
stanch Democrat and public spirited citizen maintains a keen interest in all
public movements. He has contributed materially to the progress of the
community, and among his associates is regarded as a man of high honor and
kindly personality.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]

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