BIO:  John COOK, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Carroll Township, Pg 85

JOHN COOK, son of John and Hannah Cook, of this township, was born August 18, 
1813, and is of Welsh descent.  He was reared a farmer and remained with his 
father thirty-one years after he attained his majority; but on the 24th of April, 
1849, married Lydia M., daughter of John and Lydia Walker, of Warrington 
Township.  For many years Mr. Cook drove a team during the winter to Baltimore, 
Chambersburg, Lancaster, Harrisburg and Carlisle.  At the death of his father he 
bought the homestead of 100 acres, of which eighty-five are under cultivation and 
fifteen in timber, and in 1869 erected a fine barn.  He still resides on the 
place.  Mrs. Lydia Cook died March 3, 1873, the mother of four children, viz.:  
Eliza Ann, married to A. B. Shearer; William Ramsey, married to Mary M. Herges, 
and superintendent of the home farm; Fanny N., at home; and Ruth Emma, a school 
teacher.  The family are members of the Warrington Friends’ Meeting.