BIO: Samuel W. COOK, Huntingdon County, PA

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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 286.
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  SAMUEL W. COOK, Eagle Foundry, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born at 
Broad Top, Tod township, March 31, 1831, son of Isaac and Rachel 
(McClain) Cook. The Cook family are English by descent, but the 
grandfather of S. W. Cook, Isaac Cook, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania. 
He came to Huntingdon county, and made his residence in Tod township. 
He married Sarah Elder, and had a family of children. He died at Broad 
Top. Both he and his son, Isaac Cook, Jr., were farmers. The latter was 
born at Flourtown, Montgomery county, Pa., but passed all his years of 
activity in this county, where he owned more than 360 acres of land on 
Broad Top. Most of it being coal land, he sold it, and bought another 
farm in Tod township, where he carried on his operations as farmer and 
stock raiser; he also owned and ran a mill. He was a good old-style 
Democrat. Mrs. Isaac Cook was a native of Broad Top; their children 
were: Samuel W.; James, farmer, of Tod township; John, deceased; 
William, farmer, Tod township; Susan, deceased; Oliver, of Tod 
township; and Solomon, of Tod township. Mr. Cook was a man of good 
principles and irreproachable life, a Methodist, devoted to his church, 
and a teacher in its Sunday-school. He died in 1876, and his wife in 
1894, both in Tod township.
  Samuel W. Cook received a common school education in his native 
township, and began life as a worker with his father, on the home farm, 
where he remained until he was twenty-five. From that time to the 
present, he has cultivated his own farm of 100 acres in the same 
township. He has carefully improved his land, erecting a dwelling and 
farm buildings at a cost of some $3,000. Stock raising, lime burning, 
etc., add to the profits of his farm work. He owns a tract of 88 acres 
besides his home place, and not distant from it. Mr. Cook has worked 
diligently all his life, and has well earned the success that has 
crowned his labors. He is of genial and kindly manner, and enjoys the 
kind regard of many friends. He is a farmer of progressive ideas, a 
member of Grange No. 444, P. of H. He adheres to the Democratic party.
  The marriage of Samuel W. Cook with Eoline, daughter of John and 
Elizabeth (Curfman) Gosnell, took place in Tod township, in 1857. Their 
children are: Leonard C., of North Dakota; and Jane (Mrs. Andrew N. 
Cutchley), of Tod township. Mr. Cook is a faithful member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church.