Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Robert Johnson Cook and Annie Wells




Husband Robert Johnson Cook 1 2

           Born: 21 Mar 1849 1 2
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         Father: John Bell Cook (1808-Aft 1889) 1 3
         Mother: Matilda Cunningham (      -1887) 1 2


       Marriage: 26 Apr 1881 1 2



Wife Annie Wells 1 2

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Children

General Notes: Husband - Robert Johnson Cook


He received his early education in the common schools, entered Yale College in 1872, and graduated in 1876. He began the study of law in Greensburg with A. M. Fulton, Esq., in 1877, and completed his course in the office of Hon. John H. Baily, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar in 1878, and was married in 1881, and sailed for Europe. He was then in Leipsic, Germany, studying. By 1882 he and his wife had one child, born in Germany.
He was captain of the Yale boat crew from 1873 until 1876. He was sent by Yale to England in 1873 to learn the English stroke.


General Notes: Wife - Annie Wells

from Pittsburgh, PA

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Sources


1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 825.

2 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 326.

3 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 325.


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