Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Cook, Asa  April 1, 1835 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

ASA COOK, farmer, section 11, Barton Township, was born April 1, 1835, in 
Richland Co. Ohio.  His parents, 

Asa and Cynthia (Updegraff) Cook, were natives of Ohio.  The father died when 
his son was but ten years of 

age; the mother in 1859.

Mr. Cook spent the years of his early life in obtaining an education and in 
farm labor, until 1862, when 

he responded to the call of his country for men to aid in her hour of trail.  
He enlisted and was in the 

service until June 1865, when he received his discharge.  among the prominent 
engagements in which he 

paricipated were Crab Orchard, Stone River, Atlanta, Peach Tree Creek and the 
campaign of Sherman through 

Georgia.  In October following his discharge from the army he located in 
Newaygo Co., Mich., and bought 80 

acres of land in Barton Township, then in a comparitively unsettled condition.

He was married in 1860 to Eliza Jane, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Doll) 
Forsyth.  The parents were 

natives of Pennsylvania.  Mrs. C. was born in Ohio, Nov. 3, 1841.  the family 
of Mr. and Mrs. Cook 

includes three children, viz:  May M., Francis M. and Nellie A.

Mr. Cook is a Republican in political belief, and has served his township in 
several official capacities. 


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1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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