Son of William Cook and Hannah Pond.
Ele Cook, eldest son and child of Major William, was born in New Canaan, Conn., March 5, 1782, came with his father to Pompey Hollow in 1792, and assisted the latter on the farm, in the saw mill, and in the brickyard on the premises. At these last two named establishments were manufactured the lumber and brick which were used in the erection of the first academy building at Pompey Hill, and a model of this structure is still preserved by the Onondaga Historical Society at Syracuse. Mr. Cook was educated in the schools of his adopted town. In 1807 he married Catharine Klha Carman, daughter of John J. Carman, of New Jersey, and of Revolutionary fame. Mr. Carman was a wealthy man when he enlisted in the Continental Army, but the depreciation of government money left him at the close of the war without a dollar. He was in the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, and in many others, including Bunker Hill. He was a cousin of Gen. William Carman, of Washington, D. C, was born in Woodbridge, Middlesex county, N. J., October 4, 1751, and died September 9, 1837, in Delphi, Onondaga county, near where his daughter was teaching school when she married Mr. Cook. His wife Deborah was born April 4, 1756, and died May 24, 1830, in Cincinnatus, Cortland county. Ele Cook served for four weeks at Sackett's Harbor in the War of 1812, and in 1813 moved with his wife and three children from Pompey Hollow to what is now La Fayette, then known as Pompey ell. He bouglit a farm one mile north of the village, built a saw mill, and established the first brick manufactory in that town. His brick and lumber were used in the construction of the schools and churches which the family attended. After residing there twenty years he sold his mill and twentyfive acres of land and moved to a farm of 125 acres near Onondaga Valley, which he purchased of Mr. Whitcomb for $40 per acre. This was in 1833. In 1867, after his children had left home, he sold this place to Justus Newell for $100 per acre. He returned temporarily to La Fayette. He intended to set up housekeeping again, but a severe cold in 1868 brought on asthma, and he died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Nancy A. Morse, in La Fayette, January 7, 1869. His wife died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harriet M. Lyons, in Syracuse, October 28, 1879. Mr. Cook was a good farmer, an able business man, an earnest, upright citizen, and a kind husband and indulgent parent. He started in life comparatively poor, but by shrewd management and careful living succeeded in accumulating a competency. He was uniformly .successful, and besides his farming and manufacturing operations also bought and sold large numbers of cattle, horses, and sheep. He was able to do business up to nearly the time of his death, his mind being almost as clear and active as during his earlier years. He was a lifelong abstainer from all intoxicating liquors, and was always regarded as a strictly temperate man. He was a good neighbor, a faithful friend, a wise counselor, and a public spirited, enterprising citizens, and won the confidence and respect of all who knew him. At his funeral the Rev. Mr. Palmer, of Collingwood, said "an honest and a just man is dead." Ele and Catharine E. (Carman) Cook had eight children, of whom five were born in La Fayette: Nancy Asenath, born October 13, 1808; William J., born April 24, 1810; Addison Carman, born March 17, 1813; James Jerome, born September 28, 1814; Emeline Pond, born October 29, 1817; Orator Fuller, born March 33, 1819; Harriet Maretta, born September 20, 1821 ; and George Washington, born May 23, 1824. Nancy A., married John Morse, and in 1826 settled on her present farm in LaFayette, where Mrs. Morse died March 8, 1891, leaving no children. She has reared five children to maturity, and has been an active worker in the church and among the sick. William J. Cook was educated in the schools of La Fayette and at an early age displayed a remarkable inclination for study. In 1833 he married Sophia, daughter of Orange King, a Revolutionary soldier and long a tavern keeper in La Fayette Square. The next year he built a house and settled on his farm one mile south of Onondaga Valley, where he finally began the study of medicine. In 1866 he sold out and purchased the Gridley store house and property on the east side of the valley. In the spring of 1843 he again sold out and moved to La Fayette, where he purchased the Samuel Baldwin place, and where he practiced botanic medicine with success, his ride extending into adjoining towns. Drs. Rose and Parks of La Fayette, and Dr. Stearns, of Pompey, although allopaths, were among his warmest friends. He died there June 3, 1863. His children were Charles Addison, born in April, 1833, who became a clerk in the store of Milton S. Price in La Fayette and went to Wisconsin and thence to Denver among the gold seekers ; Mary E. , born April 30, 1835, who was graduated from the State Normal school at Albany, became a school teacher, and now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, where her mother, Sophia, died January 17, 1890; Anna, born July 33, 1837; Cornelia P., born June 5, 1843, who in consequence of a fall became a cripple, and died in Salt Lake City in 1885 ; and Ida lone born April 31, 1851, who was graduated from the Oswego State Normal School, and became a successful and noted teacher in Utah. Charles A. Cook, the eldest of this family, was mayor of Denver two terms, president of a local bank about ten years, and married Georgette Loyd, a wealthy lady, by whom he had two children: Elmo William, born March 30, 1872, of Logan county, Utah, and Edna, born June 27, 1874, a graduate of and now a teacher in the Oswego Normal School. Charles C. Cook died at Hot Springs, Ark., March 17, 1878. Addison Carman Cook, third child of Ele, was married in 1832 to Sally S. Smith, of Tully, lived about three years near the "Indian saw mill," which he run, and moved all the way by boat from Syracuse to Jacksonville, Ill., where he purchased a tract of land ujoon which that city was afterward built. He died September 5, 1838. James Jerome Cook, fourth child of Ele, resides on the old Gould farm in La Fayette, three miles south of Jamesville.
Ele Cook, eldest son and child of Major William, was born in New Canaan, Conn., March 5, 1782, came with his father to Pompey Hollow in 1792, and assisted the latter on the farm, in the saw mill, and in the brickyard on the premises. At these last two named establishments were manufactured the lumber and brick which were used in the erection of the first academy building at Pompey Hill, and a model of this structure is still preserved by the Onondaga Historical Society at Syracuse. Mr. Cook was educated in the schools of his adopted town. In 1807 he married Catharine Klha Carman, daughter of John J. Carman, of New Jersey, and of Revolutionary fame. Mr. Carman was a wealthy man when he enlisted in the Continental Army, but the depreciation of government money left him at the close of the war without a dollar. He was in the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, and in many others, including Bunker Hill. He was a cousin of Gen. William Carman, of Washington, D. C, was born in Woodbridge, Middlesex county, N. J., October 4, 1751, and died September 9, 1837, in Delphi, Onondaga county, near where his daughter was teaching school when she married Mr. Cook. His wife Deborah was born April 4, 1756, and died May 24, 1830, in Cincinnatus, Cortland county. Ele Cook served for four weeks at Sackett's Harbor in the War of 1812, and in 1813 moved with his wife and three children from Pompey Hollow to what is now La Fayette, then known as Pompey ell. He bouglit a farm one mile north of the village, built a saw mill, and established the first brick manufactory in that town. His brick and lumber were used in the construction of the schools and churches which the family attended. After residing there twenty years he sold his mill and twentyfive acres of land and moved to a farm of 125 acres near Onondaga Valley, which he purchased of Mr. Whitcomb for $40 per acre. This was in 1833. In 1867, after his children had left home, he sold this place to Justus Newell for $100 per acre. He returned temporarily to La Fayette. He intended to set up housekeeping again, but a severe cold in 1868 brought on asthma, and he died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Nancy A. Morse, in La Fayette, January 7, 1869. His wife died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harriet M. Lyons, in Syracuse, October 28, 1879. Mr. Cook was a good farmer, an able business man, an earnest, upright citizen, and a kind husband and indulgent parent. He started in life comparatively poor, but by shrewd management and careful living succeeded in accumulating a competency. He was uniformly .successful, and besides his farming and manufacturing operations also bought and sold large numbers of cattle, horses, and sheep. He was able to do business up to nearly the time of his death, his mind being almost as clear and active as during his earlier years. He was a lifelong abstainer from all intoxicating liquors, and was always regarded as a strictly temperate man. He was a good neighbor, a faithful friend, a wise counselor, and a public spirited, enterprising citizens, and won the confidence and respect of all who knew him. At his funeral the Rev. Mr. Palmer, of Collingwood, said "an honest and a just man is dead." Ele and Catharine E. (Carman) Cook had eight children, of whom five were born in La Fayette: Nancy Asenath, born October 13, 1808; William J., born April 24, 1810; Addison Carman, born March 17, 1813; James Jerome, born September 28, 1814; Emeline Pond, born October 29, 1817; Orator Fuller, born March 33, 1819; Harriet Maretta, born September 20, 1821 ; and George Washington, born May 23, 1824. Nancy A., married John Morse, and in 1826 settled on her present farm in LaFayette, where Mrs. Morse died March 8, 1891, leaving no children. She has reared five children to maturity, and has been an active worker in the church and among the sick. William J. Cook was educated in the schools of La Fayette and at an early age displayed a remarkable inclination for study. In 1833 he married Sophia, daughter of Orange King, a Revolutionary soldier and long a tavern keeper in La Fayette Square. The next year he built a house and settled on his farm one mile south of Onondaga Valley, where he finally began the study of medicine. In 1866 he sold out and purchased the Gridley store house and property on the east side of the valley. In the spring of 1843 he again sold out and moved to La Fayette, where he purchased the Samuel Baldwin place, and where he practiced botanic medicine with success, his ride extending into adjoining towns. Drs. Rose and Parks of La Fayette, and Dr. Stearns, of Pompey, although allopaths, were among his warmest friends. He died there June 3, 1863. His children were Charles Addison, born in April, 1833, who became a clerk in the store of Milton S. Price in La Fayette and went to Wisconsin and thence to Denver among the gold seekers ; Mary E. , born April 30, 1835, who was graduated from the State Normal school at Albany, became a school teacher, and now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, where her mother, Sophia, died January 17, 1890; Anna, born July 33, 1837; Cornelia P., born June 5, 1843, who in consequence of a fall became a cripple, and died in Salt Lake City in 1885 ; and Ida lone born April 31, 1851, who was graduated from the Oswego State Normal School, and became a successful and noted teacher in Utah. Charles A. Cook, the eldest of this family, was mayor of Denver two terms, president of a local bank about ten years, and married Georgette Loyd, a wealthy lady, by whom he had two children: Elmo William, born March 30, 1872, of Logan county, Utah, and Edna, born June 27, 1874, a graduate of and now a teacher in the Oswego Normal School. Charles C. Cook died at Hot Springs, Ark., March 17, 1878. Addison Carman Cook, third child of Ele, was married in 1832 to Sally S. Smith, of Tully, lived about three years near the "Indian saw mill," which he run, and moved all the way by boat from Syracuse to Jacksonville, Ill., where he purchased a tract of land ujoon which that city was afterward built. He died September 5, 1838. James Jerome Cook, fourth child of Ele, resides on the old Gould farm in La Fayette, three miles south of Jamesville.
Son of William Cook and Hannah Pond.
Ele Cook, eldest son and child of Major William, was born in New Canaan, Conn., March 5, 1782, came with his father to Pompey Hollow in 1792, and assisted the latter on the farm, in the saw mill, and in the brickyard on the premises. At these last two named establishments were manufactured the lumber and brick which were used in the erection of the first academy building at Pompey Hill, and a model of this structure is still preserved by the Onondaga Historical Society at Syracuse. Mr. Cook was educated in the schools of his adopted town. In 1807 he married Catharine Klha Carman, daughter of John J. Carman, of New Jersey, and of Revolutionary fame. Mr. Carman was a wealthy man when he enlisted in the Continental Army, but the depreciation of government money left him at the close of the war without a dollar. He was in the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, and in many others, including Bunker Hill. He was a cousin of Gen. William Carman, of Washington, D. C, was born in Woodbridge, Middlesex county, N. J., October 4, 1751, and died September 9, 1837, in Delphi, Onondaga county, near where his daughter was teaching school when she married Mr. Cook. His wife Deborah was born April 4, 1756, and died May 24, 1830, in Cincinnatus, Cortland county. Ele Cook served for four weeks at Sackett's Harbor in the War of 1812, and in 1813 moved with his wife and three children from Pompey Hollow to what is now La Fayette, then known as Pompey ell. He bouglit a farm one mile north of the village, built a saw mill, and established the first brick manufactory in that town. His brick and lumber were used in the construction of the schools and churches which the family attended. After residing there twenty years he sold his mill and twentyfive acres of land and moved to a farm of 125 acres near Onondaga Valley, which he purchased of Mr. Whitcomb for $40 per acre. This was in 1833. In 1867, after his children had left home, he sold this place to Justus Newell for $100 per acre. He returned temporarily to La Fayette. He intended to set up housekeeping again, but a severe cold in 1868 brought on asthma, and he died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Nancy A. Morse, in La Fayette, January 7, 1869. His wife died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harriet M. Lyons, in Syracuse, October 28, 1879. Mr. Cook was a good farmer, an able business man, an earnest, upright citizen, and a kind husband and indulgent parent. He started in life comparatively poor, but by shrewd management and careful living succeeded in accumulating a competency. He was uniformly .successful, and besides his farming and manufacturing operations also bought and sold large numbers of cattle, horses, and sheep. He was able to do business up to nearly the time of his death, his mind being almost as clear and active as during his earlier years. He was a lifelong abstainer from all intoxicating liquors, and was always regarded as a strictly temperate man. He was a good neighbor, a faithful friend, a wise counselor, and a public spirited, enterprising citizens, and won the confidence and respect of all who knew him. At his funeral the Rev. Mr. Palmer, of Collingwood, said "an honest and a just man is dead." Ele and Catharine E. (Carman) Cook had eight children, of whom five were born in La Fayette: Nancy Asenath, born October 13, 1808; William J., born April 24, 1810; Addison Carman, born March 17, 1813; James Jerome, born September 28, 1814; Emeline Pond, born October 29, 1817; Orator Fuller, born March 33, 1819; Harriet Maretta, born September 20, 1821 ; and George Washington, born May 23, 1824. Nancy A., married John Morse, and in 1826 settled on her present farm in LaFayette, where Mrs. Morse died March 8, 1891, leaving no children. She has reared five children to maturity, and has been an active worker in the church and among the sick. William J. Cook was educated in the schools of La Fayette and at an early age displayed a remarkable inclination for study. In 1833 he married Sophia, daughter of Orange King, a Revolutionary soldier and long a tavern keeper in La Fayette Square. The next year he built a house and settled on his farm one mile south of Onondaga Valley, where he finally began the study of medicine. In 1866 he sold out and purchased the Gridley store house and property on the east side of the valley. In the spring of 1843 he again sold out and moved to La Fayette, where he purchased the Samuel Baldwin place, and where he practiced botanic medicine with success, his ride extending into adjoining towns. Drs. Rose and Parks of La Fayette, and Dr. Stearns, of Pompey, although allopaths, were among his warmest friends. He died there June 3, 1863. His children were Charles Addison, born in April, 1833, who became a clerk in the store of Milton S. Price in La Fayette and went to Wisconsin and thence to Denver among the gold seekers ; Mary E. , born April 30, 1835, who was graduated from the State Normal school at Albany, became a school teacher, and now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, where her mother, Sophia, died January 17, 1890; Anna, born July 33, 1837; Cornelia P., born June 5, 1843, who in consequence of a fall became a cripple, and died in Salt Lake City in 1885 ; and Ida lone born April 31, 1851, who was graduated from the Oswego State Normal School, and became a successful and noted teacher in Utah. Charles A. Cook, the eldest of this family, was mayor of Denver two terms, president of a local bank about ten years, and married Georgette Loyd, a wealthy lady, by whom he had two children: Elmo William, born March 30, 1872, of Logan county, Utah, and Edna, born June 27, 1874, a graduate of and now a teacher in the Oswego Normal School. Charles C. Cook died at Hot Springs, Ark., March 17, 1878. Addison Carman Cook, third child of Ele, was married in 1832 to Sally S. Smith, of Tully, lived about three years near the "Indian saw mill," which he run, and moved all the way by boat from Syracuse to Jacksonville, Ill., where he purchased a tract of land ujoon which that city was afterward built. He died September 5, 1838. James Jerome Cook, fourth child of Ele, resides on the old Gould farm in La Fayette, three miles south of Jamesville.
Ele Cook, eldest son and child of Major William, was born in New Canaan, Conn., March 5, 1782, came with his father to Pompey Hollow in 1792, and assisted the latter on the farm, in the saw mill, and in the brickyard on the premises. At these last two named establishments were manufactured the lumber and brick which were used in the erection of the first academy building at Pompey Hill, and a model of this structure is still preserved by the Onondaga Historical Society at Syracuse. Mr. Cook was educated in the schools of his adopted town. In 1807 he married Catharine Klha Carman, daughter of John J. Carman, of New Jersey, and of Revolutionary fame. Mr. Carman was a wealthy man when he enlisted in the Continental Army, but the depreciation of government money left him at the close of the war without a dollar. He was in the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, and in many others, including Bunker Hill. He was a cousin of Gen. William Carman, of Washington, D. C, was born in Woodbridge, Middlesex county, N. J., October 4, 1751, and died September 9, 1837, in Delphi, Onondaga county, near where his daughter was teaching school when she married Mr. Cook. His wife Deborah was born April 4, 1756, and died May 24, 1830, in Cincinnatus, Cortland county. Ele Cook served for four weeks at Sackett's Harbor in the War of 1812, and in 1813 moved with his wife and three children from Pompey Hollow to what is now La Fayette, then known as Pompey ell. He bouglit a farm one mile north of the village, built a saw mill, and established the first brick manufactory in that town. His brick and lumber were used in the construction of the schools and churches which the family attended. After residing there twenty years he sold his mill and twentyfive acres of land and moved to a farm of 125 acres near Onondaga Valley, which he purchased of Mr. Whitcomb for $40 per acre. This was in 1833. In 1867, after his children had left home, he sold this place to Justus Newell for $100 per acre. He returned temporarily to La Fayette. He intended to set up housekeeping again, but a severe cold in 1868 brought on asthma, and he died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Nancy A. Morse, in La Fayette, January 7, 1869. His wife died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harriet M. Lyons, in Syracuse, October 28, 1879. Mr. Cook was a good farmer, an able business man, an earnest, upright citizen, and a kind husband and indulgent parent. He started in life comparatively poor, but by shrewd management and careful living succeeded in accumulating a competency. He was uniformly .successful, and besides his farming and manufacturing operations also bought and sold large numbers of cattle, horses, and sheep. He was able to do business up to nearly the time of his death, his mind being almost as clear and active as during his earlier years. He was a lifelong abstainer from all intoxicating liquors, and was always regarded as a strictly temperate man. He was a good neighbor, a faithful friend, a wise counselor, and a public spirited, enterprising citizens, and won the confidence and respect of all who knew him. At his funeral the Rev. Mr. Palmer, of Collingwood, said "an honest and a just man is dead." Ele and Catharine E. (Carman) Cook had eight children, of whom five were born in La Fayette: Nancy Asenath, born October 13, 1808; William J., born April 24, 1810; Addison Carman, born March 17, 1813; James Jerome, born September 28, 1814; Emeline Pond, born October 29, 1817; Orator Fuller, born March 33, 1819; Harriet Maretta, born September 20, 1821 ; and George Washington, born May 23, 1824. Nancy A., married John Morse, and in 1826 settled on her present farm in LaFayette, where Mrs. Morse died March 8, 1891, leaving no children. She has reared five children to maturity, and has been an active worker in the church and among the sick. William J. Cook was educated in the schools of La Fayette and at an early age displayed a remarkable inclination for study. In 1833 he married Sophia, daughter of Orange King, a Revolutionary soldier and long a tavern keeper in La Fayette Square. The next year he built a house and settled on his farm one mile south of Onondaga Valley, where he finally began the study of medicine. In 1866 he sold out and purchased the Gridley store house and property on the east side of the valley. In the spring of 1843 he again sold out and moved to La Fayette, where he purchased the Samuel Baldwin place, and where he practiced botanic medicine with success, his ride extending into adjoining towns. Drs. Rose and Parks of La Fayette, and Dr. Stearns, of Pompey, although allopaths, were among his warmest friends. He died there June 3, 1863. His children were Charles Addison, born in April, 1833, who became a clerk in the store of Milton S. Price in La Fayette and went to Wisconsin and thence to Denver among the gold seekers ; Mary E. , born April 30, 1835, who was graduated from the State Normal school at Albany, became a school teacher, and now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, where her mother, Sophia, died January 17, 1890; Anna, born July 33, 1837; Cornelia P., born June 5, 1843, who in consequence of a fall became a cripple, and died in Salt Lake City in 1885 ; and Ida lone born April 31, 1851, who was graduated from the Oswego State Normal School, and became a successful and noted teacher in Utah. Charles A. Cook, the eldest of this family, was mayor of Denver two terms, president of a local bank about ten years, and married Georgette Loyd, a wealthy lady, by whom he had two children: Elmo William, born March 30, 1872, of Logan county, Utah, and Edna, born June 27, 1874, a graduate of and now a teacher in the Oswego Normal School. Charles C. Cook died at Hot Springs, Ark., March 17, 1878. Addison Carman Cook, third child of Ele, was married in 1832 to Sally S. Smith, of Tully, lived about three years near the "Indian saw mill," which he run, and moved all the way by boat from Syracuse to Jacksonville, Ill., where he purchased a tract of land ujoon which that city was afterward built. He died September 5, 1838. James Jerome Cook, fourth child of Ele, resides on the old Gould farm in La Fayette, three miles south of Jamesville.
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