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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.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

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.

Citation

Cook, Edwin R.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205520 (November 12, 2026).

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Correspondence
George Poindexter et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-01-28
Petition
John W. Boyd et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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