Yolo County Biographies


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JOSEPH COOK
 
Joseph Cook, a horticulturist near Woodland, is the son of George Cook, a native 
of Virginia, who died in Kentucky.  Joseph was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, 
July 14, 1814, and October 5, 1837, he married in that State, Miss Elizabeth 
Chiles, who was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, March 10, 1821.  In 1848, they 
moved to Missouri, and made their home there until the spring of 1853, when they 
came overland with ox teams to California, locating in Yolo County, on a ranch 
situated on the Willow Slough.  The ranch then belonged to his wife�s brother.  
His wife and Mr. Chile�s wife were the only women in that neighborhood.  In 
1860, Mr. Cook bought a squatter�s right to 160 acres, and lived thereon till 
1878, when he sold it and bought twenty acres near Woodland and set it in fruit.
     He has seven children, named and born as follows: George T., born September 
3, 1838; Mary B., January 12, 1841; John M., April 6, 1844; Julia L., October 
27, 1847; William J., November 30, 1852; James R., November 28, 1857; and Susie, 
August 14, 1865.  Mary B. is now the wife of William Gibson; Julia L. is the 
wife of Isaac Keys and John M. married Miss Lulu Horton.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California
The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Page 654
Transcribed by: Christine Helmick