Bio of Cook, Elnathan (b.1844) Wabasha Co., MN
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Cook, Elnathan, Chester, was born in the town of Maria, Essex county, New
York, October 1, 1844. His father, Chester K., was born in New York, and
married Harried Dutton, of Vermont birth. Young Cook was taken at nine
years of age to St. Lawrence county, where he was reared on a farm and
received a common-school education. At twenty-two he settled in Minnesota,
being employed three years to manage a stock-farm near Dodge Center. He
subsequently rented land in that vicinity, and engaged in general farming.
Mr. Cook is a good judge of horseflesh, and has raised some good horses.
In 1878 he bought on hundred acres of land on section 31, about a mile
from Mazeppa, and took up his residence thereon, in 1880. March 16, 1872,
he was wedded to Miss Lovina Arnold, daughter of Charles and Lovina
Arnold, all of New York. Mrs. Cook is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, while her husband's sympathies are with the faith of his parents,
Baptist. He is an enthusiastic republican. Their children were given them
at following dates: William, December 12, 1879; Maude, September 5, 1877;
Mary, July 30, 1882.