Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Cook, Joseph 1814 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JOSEPH COOK, a horticulturist near Woodland, is the son of George Cook, a native
of Virginia, who died in Kentucky. Joseph was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky,
July 14, 1814, and October 5, 1837, he married, in that State, Miss Elizabeth
Chiles, who was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, March 10, 1821. In 1843 they
moved to Missouri, and made their home there until the spring of 1853, when they
came overhand with ox teams to California, locating in Yolo County, on a ranch
situated on the Willow Slough. The ranch then belonged to his wife's brother.
His wife and Mr. Chiles' wife were the only women in that neighborhood. In 1860,
Mr. Cook bought a squatter's right to 160 acres, and lived thereon till 1878,
when he sold it and bought twenty acres near Woodland and set it in fruit.

  He has seven children, named and born as follows: George T., born September 3,
1838; Mary B., January 12, 1841; John M., April 6, 1844; Julia L., October 27,
1847; William J., November 30, 1852; James R., November 28, 1857; and Susie,
August 14, 1865. Mary B. is now the wife of William Gibson; Julia L. is the wife
of Isaac Keys, and John M. married Miss Lulu Horton.


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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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