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A. COOK, lumber manufacturer and merchant, Cooksburg, was born in Yenango county, Penn., in 1824, a son of John
and Susan (Helpman) Cook. The father was born east of the Alleghany mountains, and eventually settled in that part
of Jefferson (now Forest) county, where he entered a tract of land and built a sawmill. Running the lumber down
the river to Pittsburgh on these trips (which he made in a canoe), he would bring back provisions for his family.
His first wife dying in 1830, he married, for his second, Mrs. Ritter, who died in 1872. John Cook belonged to
the old Whig party, and filled many of the early offices of the county. He died in 1858. Hon. A. Cook, who was
one in a family of eleven children, was educated in the schools of the period. and when young, began to assist
his father in his business. In 1846 he started in the lumber business for himself, and has since been one of the
extensive dealers in the county; by hard work and good judgment, his firm has become one of the wealthiest in the
county. He owns large tracts of timber land, a large mill at Pittsburgh and the mill at Cooksburg. which town was
principally built by him, and is named in honor of him. Mr. Cook married, in 1849, Miss Rebecca Ann, daughter of
John Mays, of Forest county, and they have reared six children: J. W. (at home), A. W. (attending to the Pittsburgh
branch of the business), and Jake, Ida May, Burt and Hattie, all at home. Mr. Cook has always been identified with
the Republican party. In 1870 he was elected associate judge of the county, serving five years. He has also filled
the offices of county auditor, county commissioner, and all other local offices. He has been a stockholder and
officer in the Second National Bank of Clarion. Penn., since its formation, and for the past three years its president.
He is a believer in the Universalist doctrine.
From:
History of the Counties of
McKean, Elk and Forest,
Pennsylvania
With Biographical Selections.
J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers
Chicago, 1890.
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