COOK, Z. T., St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
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Z. T. COOK, BERWICK.--Z. T. Cook was born in Louisiana, March 24, 1848.  He is
the son of William H. and Marcelite (Hayes) Cook, the former a native of
Tennessee and the latter of Louisiana.

Z. T. Cook was reared in St. Mary parish, where, at the age of six years, he
entered a private school, attending until he had reached the age of ten years,
after which time he engaged in farming, which he has continued up to the
present time.  He was married in 1873 to Mrs. Aleda Salvo, a native of
Louisiana, and daughter of A. J. Stansbury and Florence Boudreau, both natives
of this State.  To this union eight children have been born, viz:  Alden
Andrew,  Allen,  Horace,  Amson,  Alonzo,   Albert (deceased),  Alfred and .Z.
T., the subject of this sketch.  Mr. Cook operates the Glenwild plantation,
which is located on th~ Teche, about six miles below Pattersonville, in St.
Mary parish.  It consists of six hundred acres, all of which are under
cultivation, principally in cane and corn.  The capacity of the mill is very
great, one of the vacuum pans having a capacity for fifteen thousand pounds of
sugar in six hours, and the other twelve thousand pounds in the same time.  In
1890 they grew fifteen thousand tons of sugar cane, and three hundred thousand
pounds of sugar.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
364-365.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.