Barton County, Missouri Biographies-John H. COOK

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 875, 876

John H. Cook, one of the oldest residents of Newport, has been a resident
of Barton County, Mo., since 1857, coming here at that date with his 
parents, John H., Sr., and Margaret Cook, who were native Germans, where 
our subject was also born, his birth occurring in 1844. They came to the
United States in 1852, and settled first in Tennessee, and five years later
came to Barton County, Mo., where the father died in 1860, at the age 
forty-seven years, and the mother in 1869, aged fifty-five years. They were
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  John H. Cook, our subject, was
the second of five children, and, after the death of his father, he 
commenced to fight his own way in the world, and began learning the 
blacksmith's trade, and followed this occupation till 1863, when he 
enlisted in the Union army, and served three months, after which he was
in the employ of the Government until the close of the war.  From that 
time he worked at his trade in Newport until 1869, then went to Randolph
County, Ark., where he rented land and farmed seven years.  From that time
until the present he has resided in Newport, where he has been fairly 
prosperous in his calling, and is now the owner of eighty acres of land, 
and some town property. In 1870 he was married to Miss Susie Gaddy, a 
native of Clay County, Mo., by whom he has three children : John Lester,
Clarence G. and Lena. He and wife are members of the United Brethren Church,
in which he is an active worker, and in his political views he is a 
Prohibitionist.

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