San Luis Obispo County Biographies

FRANCIS EDGAR COOK

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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FRANCIS EDGAR COOK was born in Napa County, California, May 17, 1860, son of Samuel 
and Phoebe Cook, the former a native of Michigan and the latter of New York. His early 
life' was spent at his home in Napa County and at Monticello, twenty-five miles east of 
Napa city. In 1872 he came with his father to San Luis Obispo County, his father renting a 
ranch two miles north of the city. Here the subject of this sketch employed the most of his 
time when not attending school. The family next moved to a ranch of 640 acres, eight 
miles south of San Luis Obispo, which was subsequently sold to and now owned by the 
Steele Brothers. Mr. Cook now has a fine ranch of 320 acres in the San Jose Valley, on 
which he is now engaged in farming and stock-raising. He is an energetic and industrious 
farmer, and is bound to succeed in the fertile valley where he has made his home. 

He was married February 2, 1889, to Miss Martha A. Ballard. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.