Edward E. Cook, attorney, has been an active member of the Scott County bar since May, 1863. He was born in Scott County, Iowa, August 13 , 1843. He is the son of John P. Cook, a native of New York State, and one of Scott County's earliest attorneys. He came to Davenport in 1836, read law, and was admitted to practice about 1841, in Cedar County, Iowa, where he located in 1810; he was one of the earliest settlers of that County and one of the first settlers in the town of Tipton, and helped to make some of the first improvements in the place. In October, 1812, he married Eliza A. Rowe, a daughter of Christian Rowe, and a citizen of Scott County, to which she came with hier parents in 1836, from Steuben County, New York. In March, 1851, Mr. J. P. Cook moved his family to Davenport, where he remained an active member of the legal profession until his death, April 16, 1872. He was a member of the Thirty-third Congress from this district, served in the sessions of 1853-54 and 1854-55. The subject of this memoir was educated in the cities of Washington, District of Columbia; Rochester, Geneva and Albany, New York; was also a year in Griswold College, Davenport, and was the first student in the collegiate department in that institution. The graduated from the Albany Law School in May, 1863, and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of New York. He came home to Davenport, and was admitted on motion at the May term of the District Court of 1863. He then entered the office of his father, and January 1, 1865, became a member of the law firm of Cook & Drury. January 1, 1871, the firm changed to Cook & Bruning. This relation continued until the death of Mr. Cook, Sr. In May, 1872, Mr. Cook formed a partnership with Judge J. S. Richman, under the firm name of Cook, Richman & Bruning, continuing until December 1, 1875, when Mr. Bruning retired, the firm remaining Cook & Richman till May 1, 1880, when the firm of Cook & Dodge was formed. Mr. Cook affiliates with the Democratic party politically, and has done consider able committee work in an official way in its behalf and as an expositor of its principles, but has refused to become a candidate for any office. (History of Scott county, 1882.)
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