OBIT: Dr. P. McC. COOK, 1897, Native of Warren Township, Franklin County, PA

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Dr. P. McC. COOK died at his home in Webster Mills, Fulton county, at 10 p.m. 
Sunday.  He was taken ill with pneumonia Thursday night and his condition 
steadily grew worse.  He was aged 54 years.  A wife and three children survive 
him.  Dr. Cook was widely known as a physician and as a politician.  He was a 
frequent visitor to Chambersburg.  He was elected a member of the legislature 
from Fulton county as a Democrat last November and had attended a few of the 
sessions.  He was a man of much personal magnetism and a skilled physician.  Dr. 
Cook was born in Warren township, this county, and was raised in Mercersburg.  
He removed to Fulton county twenty-five years ago.  He was married to a Miss 
Seylar of Maryland.  Dr. Cook was a soldier in the late war.

People's Register, Chambersburg, PA, February 5, 1897