- ISAIAH P. COOKE, farmer, Sec. 13 [Harmony Twp.]; P.O. Janesville;
born in Onondaga
- County, N.Y., 1831; son of Chester COOKE, who was born in
1798 and started the second power woolen mill in America, at
Northampton, Mass.; father and son came to Wisconsin in 1855;
I. P. COOKE lived three years in town of La Prairie; removed
to his present location in 1859. He married Miss Eliza L. HARDING,
in 1861; they have one son - William M., born in 1863. Isaiah
and his brothers, Edward C., Dwight, Henry Clay and Geo. A.,
are radical Republicans; Mr. C. is a Universalist.
-
- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 892.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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