FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: COOK, G.W. (published 1896)
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G.W. COOK, of Fulton, is the leading and oldest merchant in that village. He
is an active and representative republican and has filled most efficiently and
acceptably the office of township trustee for two terms, being first elected
in 1886 and re-elected in 1888. His duties were such as are common to that
office and were discharged zealously and in the public interest. Mr. Cook was
born at Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 10, 1850. His father, George Cook, left the
keystone state when our subject was an infant and located in Circleville,
Ohio. He soon moved to Columbus and in 1855 came to Indiana and settled in
Fulton. G.W. Cook was schooled in the village of Fulton and finished his
education with one term at Battle Ground college. Farming was his business
till he was twenty-two, at which age he put his small capital into a stock of
general merchandise and became a fixture as a Fulton merchant. He has
continued a successful and prosperous man of business for twenty-four years.
He carries a large stock, sufficient to satisfy the demands of the community.
Mr. Cook was married in this township to Amanda L., daughter of Riley Martin,
a Cass County farmer, now deceased. The children resulting from this union
are: Flora, Bertha, Henry, Rosa, Elmer, Ray, Lee and Lalah. Our subject's
father was born near Harrisburg, Pa. He died in Fulton about 1881, aged
seventy-three. He married a Miss Albright, who is a resident of this county
and is seventy-eight years old. Her children are: Catharine, wife of William
Martin, of Fulton; Elizabeth, deceased, wife of Boyd Buchanan; Mary E.,
deceased; Hiram, deceased; Jesse, Emma, wife of Alex Hoover, near Macy, and
G.W. The Cooks are Pennsylvania Germans, and settled in the keystone state
very early in our history. They were thorough going and their histories would
be only those of thrifty and successful toilers for bread.

From:  Pictorial History of America, The Fulton County Edition [Fulton County,
Indiana], by Elia Peattie, published in 1896

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