JOSEPH D. COOK.

JOSEPH D. COOK.
Joseph D. Cook, a well known oil operator of northern Wyoming, living at Worland. was horn in Ohio. March 15, 1879, a son of T. J. and Margaret V. (Bonnell) Cook, who were also natives of the Buckeye state, and removed westward to Wyoming in 1901, settling in Lovell. where they spent their remaining days. They had a family of ten children, eight of whom are yet living. Joseph D. Cook was reared and educated in Ohio to the age of sixteen years, when in 1895 he left home and made his way to Wyoming, where he was employed as a common laborer. He afterward returned to the state of his nativity and took up the trade of an iron moulder until the Spanish-American war broke out. When volunteers were called for Mr. Cook enlisted and spent seven months in the training camps at Camps Alger, Virginia, and Meade, Pennsylvania. After he was honorably discharged from the army at Columbus, Ohio, he was engaged in the hotel business in the east until he made his final trip to Wyoming in 1907. He again engaged in the hotel business at Lovell, Wyoming, there remaining four years. On the expiration of that period he removed to Worland, where he conducted a first class commercial hotel until 1916, when he sold out and concentrated his efforts and attention upon the development of the oil interests of this section of the state, entering into partnership relations with The Keoughan-Hurst Drilling Company, which is heavily interested in oil lands and has several large leases, upon which have been developed a number of big productive wells. In 1909 Mr. Cook was united in marriage to Miss Edith S. Godfrey of Benton, Wisconsin, and to them have been born three children, Charles Dean, Evelyn Virginia and Joseph Dwyer, Jr. In his political views Mr. Cook is a democrat and keeps well informed concerning the questions and vital problems of the day but does not seek nor desire office. He is concentrating his efforts and attention upon business affairs of growing volume and importance and his labors are meeting with a merited reward—the legitimate outcome of sound sagacity and unabating enterprise.

Joseph D. Cook, a well known oil operator of northern Wyoming, living at Worland. was horn in Ohio. March 15, 1879, a son of T. J. and Margaret V. (Bonnell) Cook, who were also natives of the Buckeye state, and removed westward to Wyoming in 1901, settling in Lovell. where they spent their remaining days. They had a family of ten children, eight of whom are yet living.
Joseph D. Cook was reared and educated in Ohio to the age of sixteen years, when in 1895 he left home and made his way to Wyoming, where he was employed as a common laborer. He afterward returned to the state of his nativity and took up the trade of an iron moulder until the Spanish-American war broke out. When volunteers were called for Mr. Cook enlisted and spent seven months in the training camps at Camps Alger, Virginia, and Meade, Pennsylvania. After he was honorably discharged from the army at Columbus, Ohio, he was engaged in the hotel business in the east until he made his final trip to Wyoming in 1907. He again engaged in the hotel business at Lovell, Wyoming, there remaining four years. On the expiration of that period he removed to Worland, where he conducted a first class commercial hotel until 1916, when he sold out and concentrated his efforts and attention upon the development of the oil interests of this section of the state, entering into partnership relations with The Keoughan-Hurst Drilling Company, which is heavily interested in oil lands and has several large leases, upon which have been developed a number of big productive wells.
In 1909 Mr. Cook was united in marriage to Miss Edith S. Godfrey of Benton, Wisconsin, and to them have been born three children, Charles Dean, Evelyn Virginia and Joseph Dwyer, Jr. In his political views Mr. Cook is a democrat and keeps well informed concerning the questions and vital problems of the day but does not seek nor desire office. He is concentrating his efforts and attention upon business affairs of growing volume and importance and his labors are meeting with a merited reward—the legitimate outcome of sound sagacity and unabating enterprise.