Biographical Sketch of John L. Cook, Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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John L. Cook, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Crawford County, MO.,
in 1857.  His grandfather, David Cook, was born in Middle Tennessee in
1801, being of German descent, and married Rhoda Hawk, a native of the
same section, who was of Welsh extraction; in 1853 they moved to Dent
County, MO., where they spent their last days.  David Cook was a farmer
by occupation, though he served for many years as magistrate and several
terms as county judge; he died in 1857 and his widow in 1861.  Of their
four children but one is living, Christopher C., who was born in Wayne
County, Tenn., in 1828, and in 1848 married Margaret Sinclair, a native
of Lincoln County, N. C., born in 1828; her father, John Sinclair, was
a native of Ireland, and her mother, Resign Henry, was a native of 
North Carolina, of Irish descent.  Christopher Cook and wife moved to
Dent County with David Cook, and some three years later moved to Craw-
ford County, where they still reside.  During the war Christopher ser-
ved in the Confederate army, first as a private in Company F, Fifth
Missouri Cavalry, and later raised and became captain of Company F,
Freeman's Regiment.  Of his six children only one, John L., may be said
to be permanently identified with Crawford County, where he was born,
reared and received the greater part of his education, finishing his
scholastic training in the Salem Academy.  In 1886 he married Mary E.,
daughter of Lorenzo G. and Caroline E. (Barber) Gentry, born respective-
ly in Alabama and North Carolina, but now residents of Texas County, MO.
where Mary E. was born in 1860.  This union has been blessed with one
son, John D.  Politically, the family presents an unbroken line of Dem-
ocrats.  Religiously, Mrs. Christopher Cook is a member of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church and her husband of the Baptist Church.  Mrs.
John L. Cook belongs to the Christian Church.

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