Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, Butler Co.

HON. JAMES M. COOK.  Among the prominent and successful men of Butler
County, none exerts a wider influence or has a more enviable reputation
than this gentleman.  His birth took place on the old homestead, on the
Woodbury and Morgantown road, May 28, 1822.  His early education was
secured in an old log schoolhouse with dirt floor and benches of split
saplings, with other facilities to correspond.  His parents were George
W. and Phoebe (Dulton) Cook.  His father, a soldier in the war of 1812,
was born in Pittsylvania County, Va., and settled in Butler County about
1820.  Three years later he went to Russellville and after one year went
to Morgantown, and died September 12, 1839.  Being a poor man, his
family depended largely on their own exertions.  The mother died
February 2, 1865.  They had three children: Mrs. Mary D. Wilson, and
Mrs. Martha Sublett, both of whom, as well as their descendants, are
deceased, and our subject.  The last married, February 15, 1843, Mary
D., only daughter of Mark Kuykendall, born May 24, 1825, in Butler 
County.  Her father fought at the battle of New Orleans, and her 
grandfather, Matthew K., was a Revolutionary hero, and one of the first 
justices in Butler (then Logan) County.  Mr. and Mrs. Cook had ten 
children: Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Thomas; George T. (drowned), Mrs. Mary 
Almeda Hines, Mrs. Laura Jane Moore, John W., Mark K., Sarah M., 
Beatrice V., Monroe Morgan and Hezekiah Temple.  All are members of the
Protestant Methodist Church.  In 1844 Mr. Cook cast his first vote for 
James K. Polk, and voted the Democratic ticket until 1876, when he voted
for Peter Cooper, and has since been a Greenbacker; he has never missed 
an election since his first vote.  In the fall of 1875, he was elected 
on the Democratic ticket to the Kentucky legislature, and filled the 
office with honor one term.  He owns 1,000 acres of good land near the 
Green River, between Morgantown and Woodbury.  It consists of river 
bottom, upland, timber and plow land.  He has excellent farm buildings, 
a large herd of stock, and all the evidences of thrift and prosperity.

Cook Dulton Wilson Sublett Kuykendall Thomas Hines Moore
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Pittsylvania-VA Logan-KY

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