BIO: John B. 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, pages 303-304.
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  Cook, John B., was born on January 19, 1862, in North Norwich, 
Chenango County, N.Y. He graduated from Cazenovia Seminary in 1882, 
teaching four classes during his senior year, two in Greek and one each 
in Algebra and geometry. He spent one year in Syracuse University. 
Failing health forced him to abandon the hope of completing the course 
and go to Minnesota to regain his health. 
  His early life was spent on a farm near Norwich. He later learned the 
printer's trade, working three years on the Chenango Telegraph, of 
Norwich. He was converted in the Norwich Methodist Church during a 
series of meetings in which the pastor, W. J. Judd, was assisted by the 
Troy Praying Band. He was steward, class leader, and Sunday school 
superintendent in the Norwich church when eighteen years old. He was 
given local preacher's license by this church in 1881.
  He was twice married. The first wife was Miss Nettie V. Hoag, of 
Norwich, N.Y., who lived only twelve weeks after marriage. She died at 
Wolcott, N.Y., where her husband was supplying in the absence of Dr. 
Congdon on a trip to the Holy Land. The second wife was Miss Minnie E. 
Palmatier, of Morris, N.Y. Two daughters and one son have been born to 
them. 
  In 1885 he went to Morris, as supply, and in 1886 he joined the 
Conference. His pastoral record is as follows: 1886-87, Morris; 1888-
89, Whitney's Point; 1890, Dallas; 1891-93, Sidney; 1894-98, Newark 
Valley; 1899, Jermyn; 1900-03, High Street, Binghamton.