Will County IL Archives Biographies.....COOK, WILLIAM 
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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

WILLIAM COOK arrived in Will County May 10, 1850, and for forty years was one 

of the well-known farmers of Crete Township, where he owned a good farm on 

section 16, besides some land on section 17, aggregating altogether one hundred 

and twenty-five acres.  He was born in Lincolnshire, England, February 25, 

1810, a son of Thomas and Sarah (Holmes) Cook, and the only one of their nine 

children to seek a home in the United States.  At thirteen years of age he left 

school and began to learn the shoemaker's trade, serving until he was twenty, 

after which he worked as a journeyman.  Later he set up a shop in Winterton, 

and there married Miss Elizabeth Adkinson, who was born in England in 1803.

February 25, 1831, our subject and his wife took passage at Hull on an American 

bound ship and after a voyage of seven weeks landed in New York City, whence 

they  journeyed to Monroeville, Ohio.  After working as a shoemaker for a year 

Mr. Cook bought a small farm.   Fifteen years later he moved to Lake County, 

Ind., and from there two years afterward moved to the vicinity of Clinton, 

coming thence to Crete Township.  Here his wife died in 1865.  Later he again 

married, his second wife being Mrs. Mary A. (Mitchell) Hoskins, a native of 

England, who died December 12, 1878.  Mr. Cook continued to make his home on 

his farm during his remaining years, but his activity toward the close of his 

life was lessened by the lameness resulting from a fall.  He died at his home 

July 14, 1890.


Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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