The H600 Project Genealogy DB
Living
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Living
Generation: 3
4. Living Living married Mary Amelia Cook. Mary (daughter of Ezra Asher Cook and Maria Elizabeth Blanchard) was born on 27 Sep 1871 in Chicago,,IL; died on 04 Jun 1954 in WA. [Group Sheet]
5. Mary Amelia Cook was born on 27 Sep 1871 in Chicago,,IL (daughter of Ezra Asher Cook and Maria Elizabeth Blanchard); died on 04 Jun 1954 in WA. Notes:
Mary was known as "Mamie" per a note by Gerhard Albert Cook.
Children:
Generation: 4
10. Ezra Asher Cook was born on 05 Nov 1841 in New Windsor, Orange, New York, USA (son of Rev Ezra Sprague Cook and M. Permelia Milke); died in Sep 1911 in Wheaton,, IL. Notes:
See notes for M. Pamela MILKE, his mother.
"As a very young soldier, he fought in McClellan's Army (Civil War) and was seriously wounded." (Later) Ezra Asher Cook owned a large stationery store and print business in Chicago.
Source: Civil War Pension File - Card for Ezra Asher:
Filed in Illinois
Widow: Maria E. B.Cook
39th Illinois Infantry - enrolled as a Private on 2 Sept 1861
Invalid application 1870 May 22 Application # 156669
Certificate # 106736
Widow's application 1911 September 25 Application # 972315 Certificate # 733244
Notes from email from Linda Cook, April 26, 2004: Linda found the following information on the internet about "Ezra A. Cook Publishing" of Chicago, Illinois.
Ezra A. Cook published a number of anti-Masonic books and histories of all sorts of secret societies--- The American chapters of Knights Templar, the Ku Klux Klan, and others. One of the books published was written by Jonathan Blanchard, who wrote "Scotch Rite Masonry Illustrated" published by EAC Pub., 1882.
US Federal Census 1900 - Chicago Ward 18, Cook County, IL
Ezra A. Cook - 58 Head
Maria B. Cook - 53 Spouse
Albert E. Cook - 24
Lyman J. Cook - 14
Ethlel M. Cook - 12
Helen J. Cook - 11
Permelia S. Cook 90, mother
Antonette J. Konop - 21, servant
Arthur Schaffer - 33 - boarder
Nellie V. Walker - 25 - boarder
Ezra married Maria Elizabeth Blanchard on 05 Aug 1869 in Wheaton,,IL. Maria (daughter of Jonathan Blanchard and Mary Avery Bent) was born on 30 Oct 1846 in Galesburg,, IL; died on 05 Mar 1915 in Wheaton,, IL. [Group Sheet]
11. Maria Elizabeth Blanchard was born on 30 Oct 1846 in Galesburg,, IL (daughter of Jonathan Blanchard and Mary Avery Bent); died on 05 Mar 1915 in Wheaton,, IL. Notes:
The Bent Family in America, of the Descendants of John Bent who settled in Sudbury, MA, in 1638, by Allen H. Bent. pub. 1900.
page 79.
Maria Elizabeth Blanchard, b. Oct. 30, 1846; graduated from Wheaton College; m. Aug. 5, 1869, Ezra A. Cook, printer and book publisher, of Chicago, where she still lives (1900). Ten children.Children:
- Lillian Cook was born in 1870 in Chicago,,IL; died in 1870 in Chicago,,IL - died young.
- 5. Mary Amelia Cook was born on 27 Sep 1871 in Chicago,,IL; died on 04 Jun 1954 in WA.
- Julia Elizabeth Cook was born on 05 Nov 1872 in Chicago,,IL.
- Blanchard Cook was born in 1874 in Chicago,,IL; died in 1874 in Chicago,,IL - died young.
- Ezra Albert Cook was born on 14 Jul 1875 in Wheaton, DuPage, Illinois, USA; died on 08 Apr 1957 in Aledo, Mercer, Illinois, USA; was buried in Port Byron,IL.
- Hannah Ida Williston Cook was born on 05 Oct 1877 in Chicago,,IL; died on 04 Mar 1929 in (resided Seattle, WA).
- Grace Eloise Cook was born on 30 Oct 1879 in Chicago,,IL; died on 26 May 1969 in CA.
- M.D. Jonathan Blanchard Cook was born on 11 Sep 1861 in Chicago,,IL; died in Oct 1961 in IL.
- David Maurice Cook was born on 09 Oct 1883 in Chicago,,IL; died in 1929.
- Lyman Joseph Cook was born on 13 Sep 1885 in Chicago,,IL; died in in (resided Omaha, NE).
- Ethel Marguerite Cook was born on 14 Aug 1887 in Chicago,,IL; died on 26 Dec 1918 in Elgin, IL (resided in).
- Helen Geraldine Cook was born on 16 Apr 1889 in Chicago,,IL; died in 1925 in (resided Bellflower, CA).