COOK, Samuel

COOK, STONE, HAMILTON, ALLEN

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 15:17:58

SOURCE: "Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa" Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1893

SAMUEL COOK, one of the prominent old settlers of Crawford county, was born in
Yorkshire, England, September 8, 1842, a son of David and Mary (Stone) Cook, natives
also of that country. The father was a son of Jeremiah Cook, and the mother was a daughter
of John Stone, both natives of Yorkshire, England. In 1852 our subject's parents sailed on
the sail vessel Salem, from Liverpool to New Orleans, having been seven weeks on the
sea. The afterward came by steamboat up the Mississippi river to Clinton county, Iowa,
near Charlotte, where the father began agricultural pursuits. Mr. and Mrs. Cook were the
parents of eight children, three of whom died in England and three in Clinton county,
Iowa. The mother departed this life at the age of fifty-eight years, and the father at the age of seventy-six. The latter was a Republican in his political views, and, religiously, was a member of the Episcopal Church.

Samuel Cook was nine years of age when his parents removed to Clinton county,
Iowa, where he was early taught industry, perseverance and honesty. August 13, 1862, he
enlisted in Company F, Twenty-sixth Iowa Infantry, and participated in the battles of
Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, siege of Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga,
Missionary Ridge and the Atlanta Campaign. He went with his regiment through Georgia
and the Carolinas, and on to Washington, District of Columbia, where his command, with
General Logan at the head, was the first of that great victorious band to march up
Pennsylvania avenue at the grand review. During the war Mr. Cook contracted a disease
fin his hop, from which he will never recover. He remained in Clinton county, Iowa, until
1875, and in that year settled on his present farm of 200 acres in Crawford county. He has
a good home, 18x24 feet, with an L, 14x20 feet, surrounded by a beautiful grove of
maples, of his own planting.

Mr. Cook was married in 1867, in Clinton county, to Sarah Hamilton, a native of
New York, and a daughter of Henry and Mary (Allen) Hamilton, natives of Ireland. The
father is deceased, and the mother now resides at DeWitt, Iowa. Our subject and wife
have had five children, four now living: Emma S., Henry S., Hattie May and Mary Belle.
One child, William E., died at the age of three months. Politically, Mr. Cook affiliates
with the Republican party, but has never aspired to public office. Socially he is a member
of the G. A. R., Kilpatrick Post, of Westside; and religiously both he and his wife are
members of the Presbyterian Church. He is an active worker and Assistant
Superintendent of the Union Sabbath school of Jackson township, and the family are
intelligent and popular citizens of Crawford county.