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Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 08:25:36 EDT

Republican-Herald, Friday, January 18, 1901

DEATH OF JAMES R. COOK

Former Member of Board of Supervisors Dies After Long Illness

Oakland, Jan. 10 -- James R. Cook, aged 83 years, died Tuesday afternoon at
his residence in this city. He had suffered from an internal tumor for
several years, and his death was not unexpected. Mr. Cook moved to his farm
north of here in 1865, and has always been a prominent and highly respected
citizen. He was a member of the board of supervisors for several terms and
was of a kindly disposition, making firm friends of all with whom he came in
contact. He leaves a widow and four children, Mrs. D. Kinser, Mrs. Charles
Putnam, and Merrill Cook, who reside near here, and Waldo Cook, a resident of
Council Bluffs. He had been for many years a consistent member of the
Christian church.
--The (Iowa) Daily Nonpareil

Mr. Cook was an old Meigs county boy and was born and raised in Rutland
Township where he is still remembered with pleasure by hosts of friends.
When the Civil War broke out, Mr. Cook enlisted in Co. B, 92nd Regt. O.V.I.,
and served throughout the war. Deceased was a brother of Mrs. W. H. Skinner,
of Middleport. He was an honorable gentleman, for whom everybody had a good
word who knew him and we extend our heartfelt sympathy to his relatives and
friends in their bereavement.

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