Jeremiah Cook and Jennie McKeehan

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Husband Jeremiah Cook ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1838 - Guilford Twp, Franklin Co, PA
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           Died: 13 Jan 1884 - Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Cedar Grove Cemetery, near Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA

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Wife Jennie McKeehan ³

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Children

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1 F Helen McKeehan Cook ²

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         Spouse: Walter King Sharpe (1863-      ) 4 5
           Marr: 6 May 1897 2

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General Notes: Husband - Jeremiah Cook

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PENNSYLVANIA NECROLOGY.
JEREMIAH COOK.
On the 13th day of January, 1884, at his home, Chambersburg, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in the forty-sixth year of his age, died Jeremiah Cook, journalist and lawyer. He was born in Guilford township, in the county of his late residence; educated at the College of New Jersey, Princeton; subsequently read law at Chambersburg; was admitted to the bar of Franklin county, in company with Hon. William S. Stenger, on the 18th of August, 1860, and immediately commenced the practice of his profession at Chambersburg. But, Jere. Cook being a man of ardent nature and strong political convictions, naturally heeded every sign of the great political storm at that time impending, and when it broke, abandoned the practice of a peaceful profession, which promised much, to enter the military service of the Government. Ill health came to him early in his military career, and during a subsequent civil mission to the wilds of Montana Territory, with several years spent there in almost constant exposure of life and health, (although he returned apparently benefited,) were doubtless engendered the germs of the insidious disease to which he at last fell victim.
Upon the termination of his business in the western country. Mr. Cook returned to Chambersburg, Pa., where he assumed the editorial management of the Franklin Repository, to which Colonel A. K. McClure had already given a State-wide reputation as a political newspaper, advocating Republican principles. For a number of years Mr. Cook edited the Repository, and, as the present editor of that journal says of him, "wielded a wide influence throughout the county, and was everywhere known as a man of decided convictions, with the courage to enforce them." Says Public Opinion, a contemporary newspaper, "he was by no means a politic journalist, and oftimes, as was thought, unnecessarily excited antagonisms, not only against himself, but in the camp of his party; yet withal the feeling was general that the course of his paper was influenced by convictions of duty, and not to serve his personal interests.''
Resigning, a few years ago, the editorship of the Repository, and with it the position of Assessor of Internal Revenue for Chambersburg, which he had acceptably filled for some time, Mr. Cook resumed the practice of law, in which business he continued to be actively engaged until ill health compelled him to abandon it.
To Mr. Cook, in his domestic life, sorrow came early. He married, shortly after his return from the West, Miss Jennie McKeehan, of Chambersburg, who lived only long enough to leave three little daughters to mourn with him her early death; and these remain. Mr. Cook was buried with Masonic honors, and his mortal remains rest in Cedar Grove Cemetery, near the town where he lived and died.

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General Notes: Wife - Jennie McKeehan

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from Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA

1 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 67.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 71.

3 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 68.

4 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 826.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 70.