Jacob Wheeler Cook and Elvira McKown

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Husband Jacob Wheeler Cook ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1819 - Philadelphia, PA 3
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           Died: 25 Jan 1883 - Mansfield, Allegheny Co, PA 4
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         Father: George H. Cook (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Rachel Hoffman (      -      ) 3

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Wife Elvira McKown ⁵

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            AKA: Elvira McKowan,2 Elveril H. McKown 3
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         Father: Maj. Thomas McKown (      -      ) 3
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Children

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1 M Edward Simpson Cook ¹

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2 F Lillie Rodgers Cook ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Carnegie, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Spouse: David Boyde Stewart (1843-1913) 1 2

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3 M George A. Cook ¹

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4 F Annie Wallace Cook ⁶

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         Spouse: Samuel Duncan Culbertson (1850-      ) 7 8 9
           Marr: Sep 1874 6

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5 M Jacob Wallace Cook ³

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6 M Thomas McKown Cook ³

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         Spouse: Clara Walton (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Wheeler Cook

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At the age of thirteen he came to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and entered the banking-house of his brother, George A. Cook, in 1832. Upon the death of his brother he opened a book- and periodical-store at No. 85 Fourth avenue, but on April 10, 1845, in the great fire of that date, his place was destroyed, and he lost all. In 1847 he engaged in the banking business, being the senior partner in the firm of Cook & Harris. He continued in this firm until 1852, when the partnership was dissolved, and in that year he entered the banking-house of N. Holmes, on Market street, where he remained until Sept. 9, 1857, when he was elected cashier of the Allegheny Bank, then on Federal street, Allegheny City. He held the position of cashier until the time the bank became the Allegheny National, when he was elected its president, a position he held until his death. In 1856 he moved to Mansfield (in that spring the Pittsburgh & Steubenville railroad was to have been finished), and for nearly nine years he drove from Mansfield to his place of business in Pittsburgh, during which time, although his health was not good, he missed but very few days. So regular was he in his journey back and forth that people were in the habit of setting their clocks by him as he passed their doors. In 1865, in company with Robert J. Anderson and William Wood, he bought out the firm of Jones, Boyd & Co., and started the Pittsburgh Steel-works, under the firm name of Anderson, Cook & Co., at the corner of Ross and Grant streets. After the dissolution of this partnership he became a member of the firm of Chess, Cook & Co., manufacturers of nails and tacks, and was a member of that firm at the time of his death.

He descended on the paternal side from German ancestors, and on the maternal from Irish. He was educated in his native city, and came to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when a young man. For a time he kept a store for the sale of magazines and other periodicals, on Fourth avenue, between Wood and Market streets, which was burned in 1845. He then took employment with N. Holmes & Co., bankers, subsequently acquiring an interest in the business. With a brother and a Mr. Harris he organized the banking firm of Cook & Harris; was also one of the organizers of the Allegheny National Bank, becoming its cashier, and for many years was president of same, a position he occupied at time of his death. Mr. Cook was a member of the steel-manufacturing firm of Anderson, Cook & Co.; then became interested in the nailworks of Chess, Smythe & Co., which firm was succeeded by Chess, Cook & Co., and at his death his interest in the latter firm fell to his youngest son.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 499, 552.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1099.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 499.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 500.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 552.

6 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 551.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 550.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 131.

9 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 273.