History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.
673.

JAMES H. COOK was born near Harrisonville, Shelby Co., Ky., Jan. 22,
1837; was the eldest of five children of George W. and Rebecca
(Harrison) Cook, also natives of Shelby County.  He was but ten years
old when his father died.  In the spring of 1849 he came with his
mother, grandmother, sisters and brothers to Daviess County, and settled
on the farm now owned by William Stone, in Boston Precinct.  James H.
remained here with his mother until his marriage to Nancy A. Jones, May
14, 1857.  She was born in Daviess County, and was a daughter of William
W. and Eleanor (Bristow) Jones, who were among the first settlers of
Daviess County.  After his marriage Mr. Cook lived on the farm owned by
his brother, Samuel Cook, two years; then leased his father-in-law's
farm, in Boston Precinct, for six years; then purchased his farm in
Masonville Precinct, where he and family still reside.  He owns a fine
farm of 158 acres, seventy-five under cultivation.  Mr. and Mrs. Cook
have had a family of six children--Thomas W., born May 9, 1858, married
Frances N. Knox; William R., born April 9, 1860, is attending school at
South Carrollton College, Muhlenburg County, Ky.; James C., born Feb. 9,
1863, married Georgia A. Ambrose Oct. 29, 1882; Artemissie, born June 8,
1865; Minerva E., born July 23, 1869; John W., born July 28, 1871.  Mr.
and Mrs. Cook are members of the Baptist church.  Mr. Cook, while
engaged in farming, has been also engaged in other work.  He built and
ran one of the first molasses mills in Masonville Precinct.  He also ran
threshing machines; first owned two "ground hong" threshers; since then
has owned two separators.  In 1873 he built a grist and saw mill on his
farm, which he ran until the fall of 1881, when he moved it to
Belleville, Hancock County, where he added a flouring mill, and ran it
until November, 1882, when he sold it.  He is a Mason and a member of
John J. Daveiss Lodge, No. 389, A. F. & A. M., at Sugar Grove.  In
politics he is a Democrat.

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