Jeremiah R. Cook and Julia Ann Agnew

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Husband Jeremiah R. Cook ¹

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           Born: 3 Jan 1829 - Beaver Twp, Clarion Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Cook (Abt 1778-1858) 1 2
         Mother: Susan Helpman (      -1830) 1 3

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       Marriage: 20 Feb 1851 4

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Wife Julia Ann Agnew ⁴

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           Born: 2 Jul 1833 - Clarion Co, PA 4
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         Father: John Agnew, Jr. (1800-1874) 5
         Mother: Ellen Bailey (Abt 1811-1874) 6

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Children

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1 M Wesley Cook ⁴

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Amanuel M. Cook ⁷

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           Born: 24 Jun 1853 - Cooksburg, PA 8
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           Died: 23 Sep 1916 9
         Buried:  - Methodist Cemetery, Barnett Twp, Jefferson Co, PA

         Spouse: Louisa Hewlings (      -Bef 1917) 9
           Marr: Abt 1873

         Spouse: Mary Barlett (      -      ) 9

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3 M Richard Cook ⁴

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4 F Rose Zillie Cook ⁴

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         Spouse: Harry Custer (      -      ) 4

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5 M Lincoln M. Cook ⁴

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 F Ellen A. Cook ⁴

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         Spouse: Robert Macbeth (      -      ) 4

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7 M Allison C. Cook ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Jeremiah R. Cook

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His home was sixteen miles northwest of Brookville, Pennsylvania, on the Clarion river, where his parents settled in 1828.

He passed his early years at home working with his father, helping in the mill and with the clearing of the land until his marriage, when he was twenty-two years old. Then he lumbered for a year in company with his brothers, getting out square timber and building flatboats, which were run to Pittsburgh loaded with pig metal that was mined (by others) in Clarion County, a few miles below Cooksburg. The boats were sold at Pittsburgh for use in the Ohio river coal trade. Subsequently he was engaged in operating on his own account, buying about three hundred acres covered with pine, chestnut and hemlock and clearing up one hundred acres on the hill, where his sons later lived. He also bought and cut other timber, and in connection continued to carry on boat building and farming and rafting, employing from five to ten men regularly. For a long time, however, the boat building formed his chief interest, as there was plenty of iron and lumber to load the boats, and he also dealt in produce, being interested in a store at Cooksburg, his various interests combining to make each other profitable. For several years he cut boat materials principally, meantime rafting all that was suitable for square timber. He continued his lumbering operations until the year 1911, when he retired after more than sixty years' active connection with the business. Mr. Cook weathered a number of hard times periods when lumber was cheap and he had to work hard himself to get any returns. Then he had to hold lumber until prices advanced enough to pay for the investment, but on the whole he was successful, and he never allowed himself to become disheartened through all his trials. He acquired about four hundred acres of land which he held, and was able to give a farm each to two of his sons.
Mr. Cook always kept track of the progress of events in his locality, and took some part in the administration of township affairs, having for years served in such local offices as school director, tax collector, supervisor, etc., giving the same scrupulous attention to such responsibilities as he would to his own interests. He was a strong Republican in political sympathy practically all his life, though for a time he was inclined to Progressive doctrines. For forty years or more he was associated with the United Brethren Church, which he helped to build and which always received his regular support. [HJC 1917 II, 54]

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General Notes: Wife - Julia Ann Agnew

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She was twelve years old when her parents settled in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, near Cooksburg.

1 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 53.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1500.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1507.

4 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 54.

5 Edward B. Reighard, John Agnew of Hominy Ridge (Clearfield, PA: Self-published, 1984), Pg 7.

6 Edward B. Reighard, John Agnew of Hominy Ridge (Clearfield, PA: Self-published, 1984), Pg 9.

7 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 54, 199.

8 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 111.

9 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 200.