At the age of twenty-three, also, Mr. Cook [ABRAM F. COOK] married MISS MARIA L. PATTERSON, a daughter of JACOB and ROSE ANN (CARLTON) PATTERSON, and a niece of MINER PATTERSON, whose life sketch will be found on another page of this work; Mrs. Cook was born on a farm where the Paris schoolhouse now stands; she and her husband were school-mates and reared almost together from childhood. To their happy union have been born three children, viz: FRANK J., who is abstracter in the county register's office, and resides in Grand Rapids. He had served as deputy register for two years, and for two years worked in the county treasurer's office. BYRON L., the second child, was for six years in the commission house of Mosley & Stevens, Grand Rapids, where he attained an admirable record, being held in greatest respect by all his associates. He died July 26, 1898, at the age of thirty-three years. He was a remarkably bright and industrious young man, whose friends were numbered by the score. FRED A., the third child, is the able assistant of his father on the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are members of the Church of Christ at Cascade, of which he is one of the official board, and in politics is a republican, yet he is not at all demonstrative or aggressive in his political manifestations.

JACOB PATTERSON, father of Mrs. Cook, died at the age of sixty-two years, and his wife [ROSE ANN] at the age of seventy-eight. The latter was born in Washtenaw county, where she was married and was the mother of one child when they came to live in Kent county, where the last four years of her life were passed at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Cook. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were eight in number, all of whom are still living excepting FRANK, who died at the age of thirty-five years. The survivors are SARAH, of Fremont county, Iowa, and wife of NELSON HENRY; RILLA, married to EDWIN BAILEY, of Paris, Mich. JAMES of Oklahoma; MARIA (MRS. COOK); CLARA, wife of H. H. HENSHAW, of Chicago, Ill.; HEWITT, a mail-carrier, of Grand Rapids, and BERT, a boot and shoe dealer, of the same city.

THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS AND KENT COUNTY, MICH., UP TO DATE (Illustrated), A.W. Bowen & Co., 1900, Pgs. 614-615 (Excerpt of the Biographical Sketch of ABRAM F. COOK)

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1850 U.S. CENSUS, PARIS, KENT CO., MICHIGAN, 7 Sept. 1850
Patterson, Jacob, 42, Farmer, b. NY
Patterson, Rosan, 32, b. OH
Patterson, Sally, 15, b. OH, Attended School
Patterson, Rilla A., 13, b. OH, Attended School
Patterson, James, 11, b. OH, Attended School
Patterson, Maria, 9, b. OH, Attended School
Patterson, Clarissa, 7, b. OH, Attended School
Patterson, Franklin, 5, b. OH, Attended School
Patterson, Hewit, 7/12, b. OH

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KENT COUNTY, MICHIGAN, DEATH RECORD (1868), Pg. 238, Entry #11 - JACOB PATTERSON (Male-Married), died 1 June 1868, in Paris, aged 62, of "Chronic Dierhea". Jacob was b. in Seneca Co., N.Y., son of ROBERT & RACHEL PATTERSON of Kent Co., Mich.