Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

SEELY COOK

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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Among the productive peach orchards in the vicinity of Yuba City is one of 
thirty acres owned and cultivated by Seely Cook, who has made his home on his 
ranch, four miles southwest of the city in the Walton tract.  He was born at 
Vernon, N.J., September 3, 1871.  His father was a farmer and a Civil War 
veteran.  Seely Cook was reared on his father�s farm, and attended public school 
in the vicinity of his home until he was eighteen years old, when he came to 
California.  His first job was as a ranch laborer on the Isaac A. Winship ranch 
at Meridian.  By economy he saved the greater part of his wages, with which he 
purchased thirty-five acres of rich bottom land at Meridian, to which he later 
added ten acres.  He farmed until 1913, when he sold out to the Alameda Sugar 
Company and bought his present home place in the Bogue district.  This ranch was 
set to cling peaches, and is now highly productive.  Mr. Cook has built a fine 
house, and the property is entirely free from debt.
Mr. Cook was united in marriage with Miss Mabel Winship, a daughter of Isaac A. 
Winship; and they are the parents of seven children: Gladys, the wife of George 
Leal and the mother of two children, Jean and Loyal; Irlene, the wife of J. 
Eugene Morrison and the mother of one daughter, Betty Jean; Cecil, deceased; and 
Doris, Ena Fay, June, and Seely, Jr.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 881