Samuel Cook

H. W. Beckwith, History of Vermilion County (Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1879)

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Samuel Cook, Westville, farmer, Catlin, was born in Clermont county, Ohio, on the 4th of October, 1825. He came west and settled in Vermilion county, on the 4th of October, 1834. He remained with his parents in Georgetown township for some time. He has been twice married: first, to Amanda M. Graves. She was born in this county on the 18th of August, 1833, and departed this life on the 19th of August, 1866. The second time he married to Martha E. Citizen, on the 14th of April, 1870, a native of Warren county, Indiana, born on the 25th of July, 1839. He had six children by his former wife: Georg W., James P., Mary E. (now wife of J. A. Wherry), Charles, and two deceased: Margaret, Ellen. By his present wife be is the father of three children: Freddie, Bertie J. and John F. Mr. Cook owns a fine farm of two hundred and eighty acres, with good improvements. He has been an industrious and public-spirited man, and is respected by all who know him.