Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Cook, Isaac 1801 - before 1883
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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

   ISAAC COOK (deceased) was born in New Jersey May 3, 1801; he was a son of
Mordecai and Sarah (Havens) Cook, natives of New Jersey and New York
respectively. In 1802, his parents removed to Fairfield County, Ohio, purchasing
near Lancaster over 300 acres of land. Of this land Mr. Cook cleared a portion,
then sold the greater part, retaining forty acres; be died in the fall of 1847,
aced seventy-five years; his father was an emigrant from France before the
Revolution. Mrs. Cook, the wife of Mordecai, died about 1852. Isaac served a
three years' apprenticeship at the wagon-maker's trade in Newark. He then
married and settled on a farm in Fairfield County, where he farmed till 1830;
then removed to Hardin County, and the following year to Marion County. He was
there three years, and in 1848 removed to Kenton, where he resumed his trade,
following it to within two years of his decease: he died December 28, 1871. He
was married, in 1825, to Sarah, a daughter of John and Mary Ice, and born in
Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1804. Mr. and Mrs. Cook were the parents of ten
children, six living, viz.: Nathaniel, John P., Isaac. Emily, Lila (the wife of
Warren Kellogg) and Samantha L. Nathaniel was born in Marion County, Ohio,
October 14, 1835; was brought up on a farm until thirteen years of age; he
followed milling for four years, then learned the trade of a blacksmith,
followed it for one year, and was subsequently employed as foreman on the
Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railway. He continued in that position till
March 1873, when he removed to his present farm in Buck Township. He was
married, October 14, 1862, to Huldah, daughter of Leonard and Mary Richards, and
born in Ross County, Ohio, July 16, 1841. Of the three children born, one is
living-Willie L., born December 28, 1863; Eddie and Katie are deceased. Mr. Cook
is engaged in farming and stock-raising, and owns eighty-six acres of land. He
and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kenton. Mr. Cook
has filled the office of Township Trustee for two terms, and is politically a
Democrat.

Additional Comments:
Excerpt from

"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

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