- JONATHAN COOK, farmer and proprietor of hotel in Magnolia
Village; born March 17, 1811,
- in Chenango Co., N.Y.; moved to Monroe Co. in 1832, and,
in the spring of 1844, came to Wisconsin when it was a Territory,
and located in what is now Magnolia Township, Rock Co.; he took
up 160 acres of Government land and built a log house; the following
spring he sold out, and in the spring of 1846 took up 160 acres
again and built a log house, and he farmed this land till 1856;
in 1857, he bought 120 acres and cultivated it till 1860, when
he traded all but forty acres for a house and lot in Magnolia
Village; at this time he was manufacturing drums as well as attending
to his farm; in 1864, he bought the hotel; he now owns it and
about four acres of land. Married Miss Marietta JANES, of Chenango
Co., N.Y., in the fall of 1831; they have one child - Charles
F., who enlisted in the 13th W.V.I. and served till the close
of the war. Mr. COOK served as Justice of the Peace for thirteen
years; Side Supervisor for several years; is a member of the
Excelsior Grange, No. 108, Magnolia.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 877-878.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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