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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  N. H. COOK, stockraiser and farmer of Leota township, is a homesteader of that

precinct and one of its early day settlers. He owns 320 acres on sections 8 and

17. He raises thoroughbred hogs and sheep and is an extensive feeder of cattle

and hogs.



  Mr. Cook was born in Eastport, Maine, July 14, 1847, the only son of Alfis and

Elizabeth (Runnels) Cook. The father was born in Glasgow, Scotland, came to

America when a young man, and located at St. Johns, New Brunswick, where he

engaged in lumbering and milling businesses. Later he moved to Eastport, Maine,

where he engaged in the lumbering business and became a ship builder. There he

died in 1866 at the age of seventy years. Our subject's mother was a native of

England. She died at Eastport, Maine, about 1888.



  In his native city Mr. Cook grew to young manhood, securing a good education.

In 1865 he left home and located in Saginaw, Mich., where for four years he was

foreman of a timber crew. From Michigan he went to Eau Claire, Wis., where he

was an employe of the Rust & Owen Lumber company for eleven years. In 1876,

before severing his connections with the lumber company, Mr. Cook came to Nobles

county and filed a homestead claim to the southeast quarter of section 8, Leota

township. Thereafter until 1880 he divided his time between his Nobles county

claim and the timber camps of Wisconsin. He made his permanent home on the farm

in 1880, and has ever since made his home there. He bought his 160 acres on

section 17 soon after locating in the county.



  Mr. Cook was married at Gilford, Maine, to Miss Martha Adams, a native of the

Pine Tree state and a daughter of Joshua and Zuba Adams. To Mr. and Mrs. Cook

have been born the following children: Charles, Alvin, Alton, Sidney and Alfie.



  For many years Mr. Cook served as a member of the Leota township board and on

the school board of district No. 99. He holds a membership in many of the

leading fraternal organizations, being a member of the Masonic lodge of

Pipestone, and of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Woodmen.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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