Herman H. Cook Biography


	This biography appears on page 928 in "History of Dakota 
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				HERMAN H. COOK. 

	Herman H. Cook is president of the Marion Bank at Marion, Turner 
county, and is a young man of business enterprise and ability who is 
gradually forging to the front in financial circles. He was born in 
Cedar county, Iowa, on the 24th of April, 1884, a son of Fritz and 
Sophie Cook, the former a farmer and hotel proprietor. 

	Herman H. Cook, spending the days of his boyhood and youth at his 
parents' home in lowa, was educated in the public schools and afterward 
attended Brown's Business College at Davenport, that state. He made his 
initial step in the business world by becoming connected with 
mercantile interests in Sunbury, being thus engaged for three years. On 
the expiration of that period he sold out and bought a controlling 
interest in the Farmers & Merchants Bank at Verdon, South Dakota, of 
which he became the cashier. He was active in the management and 
control of the latter institution and contributed to its success, while 
at the same time he gained valuable experience along banking lines. He 
afterward purchased the bank at Marion, increased the capital and 
incorporated the institution. The business of the bank has more than 
doubled since Mr. Cook took charge and his broad and progressive policy 
is manifest in the continued success of the institution. A general 
banking business is now conducted and the clientage is constantly 
increasing, for the methods of the house commend it to the patronage 
and support of the public. 

	On March 5, 1909, Mr. Cook was united in marriage to Miss Emma 
Carstens, by whom he has one child, Fritz Carstens. The religious faith 
of the family is that of the Lutheran church, while fraternally Mr. 
Cook is connected with the Knights of Pythias and politically with the 
democratic party. He is a wide-awake, alert and energetic business man 
and while he concentrates his attention upon the management of the 
bank, he does not hesitate to cooperate in those public movements which 
work for the benefit and upbuilding of the district in which he makes 
his home.