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Moses Cook (Newport, Kentucky. city marshal. )

b. 1804? d. 1869-03-23

Campbell County, Kentucky, state agent, city marshal, and deputy sheriff. Ohio native. Married to Sarah A. Cook. Father of William D. Cook, Mary Cook, Jane Cook, Sarah Cook, John Cook, Robert Cook, and William Cook. Farmer in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Agent for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the requisition of Charles Leeds from Missouri in 1859. City marshal in Newport, Campbell County, in 1860. Deputy sheriff of Campbell County in 1861. Agent for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the requisition of Claudius Tifft from Wisconsin in 1865.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Campbell County, Newport, p. 34A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 250.

"On Their Winding Way," Cincinnati Daily Press (Cincinnati, OH), February 25, 1861, p. 3.

"Death of the City Marshal," The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH), March 24, 1869, p. 7.

"Action of the City Council in Regard to the Death of Marshal Cook," The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH), March 25, 1869, p. 7.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Begun and Held in the Town of Frankfort, on Monday, the Fifth Day of December, in the Year of Our Lord 1859, and of the Commonwealth the Sixty-Eighth (Frankfort, KY: Jno B. Major, 1859), 977.

Citation

Cook, Moses. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196535 (November 12, 2026).

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