James B. Cook

Birth Date

c1834

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County, Kentucky, tax assessor. Kentucky native. Son of Cullen Cook and Matilda Cook. Resident in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Tax assessor in Princeton in 1860. Household owned two enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 350B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 778.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 37.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 223A.

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