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MARION VIRGIL COOK
SURNAMES:Cartwright, Corwin,
MARION VIRGIL COOK.—Of the third generation of California’s
earliest settlers, Virgil Cook can well
look back with pride on the long association of his family with the Golden
State. He was born in Fresno county on July 9, 1894, the son of Francis M. and
Sarah Elizabeth(Cartwright) Cook. Both parents were descended of old pioneer
families, the father coming here in 1868, while the mother crossed the plains
with horse teams, leaving their home in Coles county, Ill., the day Fort Sumter
was fired upon, taking four months and eleven days to make the journey across
the continent, arriving in Chico, Butte county. Mr. and Mrs. Cook were married
in Colusa County and became the parents of four sons, Francis Elmer and Thomas
Edwin, both deceased; James E. and M. Virgil. Francis M. Cook passed away in
Tulare County on September 13, 1914.
When Virgil Cook
was five years old, the family moved from Fresno County to Tulare County,and
there he was reared, having the advantage of three years of high school and a
good course in a business college at Fresno. After his father’s death he
returned to the home ranch and with his brother, operated it until 1917. When
the World War broke out he enlisted in the Quartermaster Corps and after five
months spent in this country he was sent overseas and spent sixteen months and
then was discharged in May, 1919, in New York. He once more took up ranch work
in Tulare County and on Januray 1,
1920, he removed with his wife and mother to Valley View, where he purchased
seventy acres and he has a fine prune orchard of forty-five acres.
Mr. Cook’s
marriage, which occurred on June 25, 1919, at Porterville, united him
with Miss Harriette Corwin, a native of Montana. Although one of the
later residence of this district Mr. Cook has entered heartily into all
its affairs and with the
industry and care which he giving his orchard, he is making of it a
successful and profitable investment. He
belongs to the Masonic lodge in San Jose.
Transcribed by Marie Clayton, from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California, published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 1683
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