Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Pulaski County

Lyttleton B. Cook, M.D., a native of Russell County, KY, was born December
8, 1855, and is a son of Edmund and Mary (Simpson) Cook.  Edmund Cook was
born in North Carolina in 1810, and is a well-to-do farmer in Russell
County, KY; he is a son of John Cook, who married Mary Green of the family
of Gen. Green, and moved from North Carolina to Woodford County, KY, in the
early settlement, Mary (Simpson) Cook, born 1818, a native of Kentucky, is a
daughter of Avington and Lucinda (Payne) Simpson, Dr. L.B. Cook is the
eighth in a family of nine children, viz: Dr. John Loy, deceased, Dr. A.S.,
Edward Green, deceased; Dr. William H., Lucinda Frances, Mary E., C. Wayne,
L.B. and Lee V.  Dr. L.B. Cook received his education in the common schools
and at the College of Arts, Lexington, KY.  He is of German origin, his
great-grandfather, Christopher Cook, and wife, emigrating from Germany to
Orange County, North Carolina, before the Revolutionary war.  He read
medicine under his brother, Dr. A.S. Cook and attended medical lectures at
the University of Louisville, KY, where he graduated in 1870.  He
subsequently located at Burnside, KY, where he has since resided.  November
21, 1883, he married Lelia B. Owens, a native of Lincoln County, KY, and a
daughter of Samuel Owens.  One child has been born to them, Anna Lee.  Mrs.
Cook is a member of the Christian Church.  Dr. Cook is a Presbyterian, a
Master Mason and a K. of H.  Politically he is a Democrat. 

Cook Green Owens Payne Simpson 
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Lincoln-KY Russell-KY Woodford-KY Orange-NC NC Germany
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