BIO: Ambrose J. Cook, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 299.
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Cook, Ambrose J., was born on March 29, 1842, at Westford, Otsego 
County, N.Y. He is the youngest of six children who were reared in a 
Christian home where prayer was daily offered and the itinerant of 
fifty years ago ever welcomed. At the age of fourteen he was so 
burdened with a consciousness of sin that, during the noon hour of the 
village school, he called upon the pastor and sought advice. Two days 
afterward he found peace, and subsequently joined the Church.
  He was educated in the common schools, and spent two years at 
Cazenovia Seminary.
  In the fall of 1860 he withdrew from the Church because of conscious 
unworthiness.
  At the outbreak of the rebellion he responded to the first call of 
the President for troops, enlisting on May 10, 1861, for two years in 
the 34th Regiment New York State Volunteers. At the expiration of this 
term he enlisted in the 13th Regiment New York Heavy Artillery, and 
served until the close of the war, never once being excused from duty 
on account of sickness.
  In the winter of 1866 he listened to the voice of God, and again 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Middlefield, N.Y. The 
following August he was received into full membership and given a local 
preacher's license. In April, 1866, while still a probationer at 
Middlefield, he was sent as supply to Schuyler's Lake, by Presiding 
Elder William Bixby. In 1867-68 he supplied Sharon Springs, and in 1869 
joined the Conference.
  On October 11, 1869, he married Miss Louisa Harper, of Sharon 
Springs, N.Y. Four children have been born to them, one dying in 
childhood. Two sons and one daughter are living.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1869-71, Bainbridge; 1872-74, 
Westford; 1875, Fly Creek; 1876-78, Hartwick; 1879-81, Factoryville; 
1882-84, Cooperstown; 1885-86, Afton; 1887-88, Worcester; 1889-91, 
Mehoopany; 1892-96, Berkshire; 1897-1903, Wyalusing.