BIO: Oliver E. COOK, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JO Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************** __________________________________________________________________ Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers. Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, page 293. __________________________________________________________________ OLIVER E. COOK, East Broad Top, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born at Broad Top, January 19, 1842, son of Isaac and Rachel (McClain) Cook. He attended school at Broad Top, and in the rural schools of Tod township. Until he became of age, he remained on the farm and was his father's assistant in its cultivation. After that time he learned the trade of milling at Bellwood, Blair county, Pa. After a short stay in that place, Mr. Cook returned to Tod township, and worked at his trade. In 1864, he began business on his own account in the well-known mill on Trough creek called Cook's mill, a familiar feature of that part of the township for nearly a century, but now so improved that its original proprietor would scarcely recognize it. Mr. O. E. Cook has conducted the mill for over thirty years, and has one of the finest mills in Huntingdon county. He owns besides 130 acres of land in Tod township, which he bought, and has improved with a dwelling and other buildings, including barn. Mill and improvements together have cost about $10,000. Mr. Cook also owns a sawmill, and manufactures lumber with fair success. Both mills are run by water power. Some of the lumber manufactured comes from a farm owned by Mr. Cook in Fulton county. He is also station agent for the East Broad Top R. R., at Cook's Station; has held this position since 1875; and was postmaster of East Broad Top in 1878. Mr. Cook is a business man of activity, clear-headed and attentive, so that he carries on his own various enterprises, and attends to the duties of his appointments without confusion or difficulty. He has also been tax collector for the township, and assistant assessor; he is a Democrat. He formerly belonged to the I.O.O.F., but is not now a member of any secret society. Oliver E. Cook was married in 1870, in Fulton county, to Margaret J., daughter of Samuel F. Geissinger, of Fulton county, Pa. She was born in Huntingdon county. Their children are: Mary N.; R. Mertie; Susan L. (Mrs. P. C. Bennett), of McKeesport, Pa.; and O. G. Mr. Cook is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.