Edwin R. Cook

Birth Date

1824-04-11

Death Date

1907-11-02

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Christian County, Kentucky, physician and asylum manager. Bedford County, Virginia, native. Son of William Cook. Married to Martha Upshur Campbell Cook. Father of Sally P. Cook, Walter C. Cook, and Florence Cook. Graduated from the Pennsylvania Medical University in 1847. Physician in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed J. C. Bentley as an overseer in Christian County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons, including Garland [Unknown], in Hopkinsville in 1860. Board member and manager of the Western Lunatic Asylum in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 692.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 278A.
"Dr. E. R. Cook Passed Away," Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Ky.), November 5, 1907, p. 1.
KYR-0001-007-0345.
KYR-0001-020-1313.

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