Joseph Link Cook and Jennie Belle Best

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Husband Joseph Link Cook ¹

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           Born: 2 Apr 1867 - Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: George Cook (1836/1838-Abt 1883) 1
         Mother: Catherine Link (      -1868) 1

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       Marriage: 12 Jun 1887 2

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Wife Jennie Belle Best ²

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           Born: 30 Dec 1867 - Warren Co, PA 2
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         Father: James B. Best (1837-1912) 2
         Mother: Eliza Buell (1830-1907) 2

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Children

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1 F Jessie Mae Cook ³

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           Born: 25 Apr 1888 3
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         Spouse: Charles Morrow (      -      ) 3

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2 F Sarah Elizabeth Cook ³

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           Born: 15 Aug 1889 3
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         Spouse: Seth Morrow (      -Bef 1914) 3

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3 M George Earl Cook ³

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           Born: 29 Jun 1891 3
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4 M James B. Cook ³

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           Born: 15 Feb 1893 3
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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Link Cook

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After finishing his studies, he was for a time employed in a bakery. The two following years he spent in the service of an express company, and was then connected with the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad in the capacity of brakeman. Leaving this company he began a relation with the Standard Oil Company that endured for twenty-three years, during which time he was an oil-pumper, and in 1903 he left the oil fields and opened a grocery store at Zellar, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, the postoffice bearing that name later went out of existence. Placing his wife in charge of this establishment he once more obtained a position in the oil fields, in 1910 abandoning that occupation permanently and moving to Carnegie, where he purchased the property and business of John Woodruff & Company, a grocer at No. 316 Ford street, Rosslyn Heights, and was there engaged in that line. In 1913 he remodeled this building, adding one story above, a flat, and building a residence adjoining. His business was of so satisfactory a nature as to more than justify the improvements he made to the property. Mr. Cook and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian Church, while his political stand was taken with the Republican party. His fraternal orders were the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he belonged to the Butler Lodge; and Lafayette Lodge, No. 652, Free and Accepted Masons. Mrs. Cook held membership in the Daughters of Rebekah and the Order of the Eastern Star.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 268.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 269.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 270.