Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Cook, Wilbert H. 1865 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

WILBERT H. COOK is one of the young business men of Akron, where he carries on a
fleurishing business in hardware and is also a member of the agricultural
implement firm of E. D. Cook & Son. He is also the present Postmaster of the
village, being appointed to this office in 1889. He is the son of E. D. and
Jennie (Waldo) Cook, natives of New York and Ohio respectively. The father came
to Michigan in 1851, and located first in Saginaw County, whence he afterward
removed to Tuscola County, where he married and became one of the business men
of this place.

  The subject of this notice was born in this county July 4, 1865, and until he
was sixteen years old he attended the district school and worked upon the farm.
He then entered the employ of the McCormick Reaper Company, and a year later
entered the store of Cook & Standard at Akron, where he remained for two years,
and then again went on the road for the McCormick Company, and a year later
bought out Mr. Standard's interest in the firm with which his father was
connected, and joined him under the firm name of E. D. Cook & Son. Mr. Cook is a
very energetic and industrious business man, and is bound to succeed in any
enterprise which he undertakes. Four years ago he started on a capital of $400
and has now built up an excellent business, and quite recently the firm has
added a large and well assorted stock of hardware to their former lines.

  Wilbert H. Cook celebrated Christmas Day in 1886, by making it his wedding
day, his bride being Phila Streeter, a daughter of W. D. Streeter, of Akron. In
1888 this young man took a commercial course of study in the International
Business College of East Saginaw, and took his diploma. He finds that this
course of study has been of real service to him in his business. He is a
stalwart Republican in his politics and is a member of the Northern Star Lodge
No. 277 A. F. & A. M. of Unionville, and also is identified with the Order of
the Maccabees. The firm of E. D. Cook & Son, did a business of over $40,000 in
1891, and their prospects were never brighter than now.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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