Biography of Elmer Waitman Cook - McDowell Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New 
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, 
pg. 498 


ELMER WAITMAN COOK, vice president and cashier of the 
First National Bank in the industrial Village of 
Iaeger, McDowell County, was born at Oceana, Wyoming 
County, West Virginia, March 24, 1896, and is a son of 
Robert Lee and Mary (Conley) Cook, both likewise natives 
of Wyoming County and now residents of Williamson, 
Mingo County. Robert L. Cook became editor and pub- 
lisher of the Wyoming Herald at Oceana, which later bo- 
came the Independent-Herald, and subsequently he was 
identified with newspaper enterprise at Pineville. He is now 
connected with the Mingo County Republican at William- 
son. His father, Capt. James A. Cook, was an officer of 
the Confederate service in the Civil war, and was eighty 
years of age at the time of his death. The family early 
settled in Wyoming County, and the family name was one 
of prominence in the civic and material development and 
progress of that county.
Elmer W. Cook, the eldest in a family of seven children, 
of whom two sons and four daughters are living, gained his 
early education in the public schools at Oceana and Pine- 
ville, his discipline including the curriculum of the high 
school. At the age of seventeen years he became bookkeeper 
in the First National Bank of Pineville. He later held a 
position in the First National Bank of Martinsville, Vir- 
ginia, and next became assistant cashier of the Clark Na- 
tional Bank at Northfork, McDowell County, West Vir- 
ginia. After leaving this bank he held the position of 
bookkeeper for the Traders Coal Company at War Eagle, 
Mingo County, and in 1919 he became one of the organizers 
of the First National Bank of Iaeger, of which he has since 
been vice president and cashier-one of the youngest bank 
executives in West Virginia and one who has made a splen- 
did record. He is a steward of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, South, in his home village, and his wife is a member 
of the Presbyterian Church.
In 1917 Mr. Cook wedded Miss Nathalie Morris, daughter 
of N. R. Morris, of Martinsville, Virginia, and the two 
children of this union are Nathalie Elizabeth and Sallie.


Submitted by Valerie F. Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> 

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