Cyrus Beecher Cook 2 3
- Born: 31 Mar 1823, Forge Springs, Lancaster, PA 2 3
- Marriage (1): Permelia Catherine Knight on 19 Nov 1844 in Hagerstown, Washington, MD 1
- Died: 16 Nov 1880, Cynthiana, Harrison, KY at age 57 2 3 4
- Buried: 18 Nov 1880, Cynthiana: Battle Grove Cemetery, Harrison, KY 2 3 4
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Noted events in his life were:
1. Census in 1830 in Codorus Twp., York, PA. 5 The 1830 U.S. Census recorded Stephen Cook with this household in Codorus Township:
Males (born)
5-9 (1821-1825) = 1 son (Cyrus)
15-19 (1811-1815) = 1 son (?)
30-39 (1791-1800) = 1 father (Stephen)
Females (born)
Under 5 (1826-1830) = 1 daughter (Mary)
20-29 (1801-1810) = 1 wife (Lydia)
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2. Census in 1840 in South Middleton Twp., Cumberland, PA. 6 The 1840 census recorded in South Middleton Township in Cumberland County Steven Cook's household:
1840 U.S. Census household
Males (born)
Under 5 (1836-1840) = 1 son (William)
5-9 (1831-1835) = 1 son (James)
15-19 (1821-1825) = 1 son (Cyrus)
40-49 (1791-1800) = 1 father (Stephen)
Females (born)
Under 5 (1836-1840) = 1 daughter (Annie Eliza)
5-9 (1831-1835) = 1 daughter (Kate Ann)
10-14 (1826-1830) = 1 daughter (Mary)
30-39 (1801-1810) = 1 mother (Lydia)
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 2.
3. Moved: 1847, , Clarke, VA. 7
4. Census in 1850 in , Clarke, VA. 8 The 1850 census recorded Stephen B. Cook, 53, living with wife Lydia, 45; Cyrus B., 27; James A., 19; William, 15; Ann E., 11; Lewis P., 9; Martha, 7; and Elizabeth, 4. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. They were living in the 12th District in Clarke county.
5. Arrival: 1858, in Richmond, Madison, KY, USA. 9
6. Arrival: 1860, in Cynthiana, Harrison, KY. 1
7. Census in 1860 in , Madison, Kentucky, United States. 10 The 1860 census recorded in District 1 of Madison County: Cyrus B. Cooke, distiller, 37, living with wife Catherine, 31; Lorrear, 13; Cora, 5; Ida, 3; and Cyrus Jr., 4 months old when the census was recorded on 23 Jun 1860. Cyrus was born in Pennsylvania, Catherine in Maryland, Lorrear and Cora in Virginia, and Ida and Cyrus in Kentucky. Cyrus' personal estate was valued at $2500. The post office was Kingston.
Also in the home is Samuel Knight, clerk & distiller, 27, born in Maryland, and John Baptist Bordess, 31, copper, born in France.
8. Census in 1870 in Cynthiana, Harrison, KY. 11 The 1870 census recorded Cyrus B. Cook, distiller, 47, living with wife Permelia C., 40; daughter Cora V., 15; son Cyrus K. 10; daughter Lilley L., 7; and daughter Hattie M., 2. Cyrus was born in Pennsylvania, Permelia in Maryland, Cora in Virginia, and the children in Kentucky.
Also in the home is Cyrus' daughter Laura P. Muller, 22, with her husband, Caleb Muller, distiller, 22, and their son Joe, 2.
Also in the household are 8 other adults and children were servants or workers who lived with the Cooks.
9. Census of Products of Industry census in 1870 in Cynthiana, Harrison, KY. 12 C. B. Cook Co. Flour Mill, capital $20,000, power steam, 50hp, machines: 1 engine, # of hands employed: 4, total wages paid in year $1248, # of months in operation: 6, materials: wheat 8000 bushels worth $9600, corn 2000 bushels worth $1500, products: flour 2000 bbls worth $10,000, meal 2000 bu. worth $1,800.
C. B. Cook Whiskey Distillery, capital $50,000, power steam, 50hp, machines: 2 engines, # of hands employed: 15, total wages paid in year $3900, # of months in operation: 5, materials: corn 23,000 bushels worth $18,000, rye 3750 bushels worth $3750, malt 1200 lbs worth $1,800, hops 500 lbs. worth $100, products: copper 1,000 barrels, bourbon, whiskey, 1000 barrels worth $30,000.
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10. Fact: C. B. Cook was a city councilman who voted to establish a public school, 14 May 1872, Cynthiana, Harrison, KY. From "History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky"
May 14, 1872.
Councilman Beale introduced an ordinance to open a public school in the city of Cynthiana, whereupon it was moved to refer the same to the Committee on Propositions and Grievances, to report by Saturday, May 27, 1872, Last.
Councilman Beale moved that the Rules be suspended, and the ordinance to establish a public school be put upon its passage. Carried.
Councilman Beale also moved that the ordinance be passed \emdash the ordinance being read was adopted by a unanimous vote.
C. Musser, Mayor.
Councilmen
F. G. ASHBROOK,
A. J. Beale,
C. B. Cook,
H. D. Frisbie,
A. W. Lydick,
B. M. Martin,
John T. Hogg,
Joseph H. Shawhan.
Meanwhile, there had been provided no buildings or grounds for the accommodation of the new city school. It was soon ascertained, however, that the Board of Trustees of the Harrison Academy were willing to transfer their charge to the City Council on the authority of an act of Assembly, which was duly obtained, Saint Andrews Lodge also selling out to the Council its rights to the upper story and its approaches, for $2,000.
The City Council at once proceeded to establish, instead of the academy, a public graded school, provided with a full corps of teachers, and, by the conditions of transfer, a course of instruction not inferior to that of its predecessor. During the first year of the city school, the registered number of pupils was 199.
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11. Occupation: Mayor of Cynthiana in 1874 in Cynthiana, Harrison, KY.
12. Newspaper: Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Mar 1877, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH. 13 The Hon. Caleb Musser was in the city yesterday. His account of the hostile meeting between him and Hon. Cyrus Cook, at Cynthiana day before yesterday, represents that Cook crossed the street to where Musser was standing, drew his pistol, and fired without a word. He thinks the immediate provocation was that he was an adverse witness in a suit of Taylor against Cook involving large interests.
13. Census in 1880 in Cynthiana, Harrison, KY. 14 The 1880 census recorded on Penn Street in Cynthiana: Cyrus B. Cook, miller & distiller, 56, living with wife Catharine, 51; son Cyrus, clerk in mill, 20; daughter Lille, 17; daughter Hattie, 13. Also in the home is Cyrus' daughter, Laura Musser, 33, living with her children: Carl Musser, 9; Catherine Musser, 7; and Lizzie Musser, 3.
Cyrus and his parents were born in Pennsylvania. Catharine and her parents were born in Maryland. Son Cyrus was born in Virginia, and Lille and Hattie in Kentucky. Laura Musser was born in Virginia, and her children in Kentucky.
14. Obituary: Kentuckian-Citizen on 17 Nov 1880 in Paris, Bourbon, KY, United States. 4 Cyrus W. Cook, Mayor and distiller, died last evening. He was a big-hearted and public-spirited man. He leaves a wife and five children. Funeral at residence to-morrow at 11 a. m. by Rev. Mr. Weeks.
15. Obituary: Kentuckian-Citizen on 17 Nov 1880 in Paris, Bourbon, KY, United States. 15 The funeral of the late Mayor C. B. Cook, of Cynthiana, was largely attended. We have seldom seen or beard more genuine expressions of regret than were expressed on that occasion at the generous, energetic and publicspirited citizen's taking off.
16. Obituary: Kentucky Gazette: Deaths: In Cythiana, November 16th, 1880, Hon. C. B. Cook. He was the mayor of Cynthiana at the time of his death. On 27 Nov 1880 in Lexington, Fayette, KY. 16
17. Book: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky: bio of James A. Cook, 1882. 1
C. B. COOK, Jr., miller and distiller, P. O. Cynthiana, was born near Richmond, Ky., Feb. 19, 1860, son of C. B. and Parmelia (Knight) Cook; he born in Lancaster County, Pa., March 31, 1823, was a millwright and distiller by occupation, coming to Kentucky in 1858, served as Magistrate at Richmond and was Mayor and Councilman several terms, dying Nov. 16, 1880. His wife was born in Hagerstown, Md., Dec. 9, 1828, where she was married in 1844; they had one son and four daughters. Our subject received his education in Cynthiana. He is and has been for some time, of the firm of C. B. Cook & Co., distillers, millers, &c., at Cynthiana. Mr. Cook has served as Chief of the fire department one term. One of the sisters of Mr. Cook is Mrs. Laura Musser, another is Mrs. Cora V. Adams, and the other two, Lillie and Hattie, are at home. His wife is a member of the Christian Church, and he is a Democrat.
18. Book: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky: bio of James A. Cook, 1882. 17
The charter of the city was approved by the General Assembly on the 2d of March, 1860 ; and for twenty-two years our people have enjoyed the advantages of a city form of government, yet there are citizens who think well of the former management by trustees, a system which had answered the purpose very well for about seventy years.
Under the city charter, from April 12th, 1860, to April, 1861, Samuel F. January held the office of Mayor, and so was the first of the line of Mayors. All city officers are elected in April of each year according to the charter.
Mayors. \emdash Second, M. L. Broadwell, 1861-63 ; third, C. G. Land, 1863-66 ; fourth, George Lemmon, 1866-70 ; fifth, Joseph Fennell, 1870-71 ; sixth, F. G. Ashbrook, 1871-72 ; seventh, Caleb Musser, 1872-74 ; eighth, T. E. Ashbrook, 1874 to October ; ninth, C. B. Cook, October, 1874, to June, 1880 ; tenth, W. S. "Wall, June, 1880, to 1883.
19. Book: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky: bio of James A. Cook, 1882. 18
Cemeteries and Monuments. \emdash From 1793 to 1868, just three-fourths of a century, the only burial ground for the deceased of Cynthiana was the old cemetery, on the east side of Main street, in the northern limits of the town. It was reserved for that sacred purpose when the town was laid out by Robert Harrison, in 1793 ; it contains a little less than four acres, and appears in the first " Platt " of the town, recorded under the date, 1797, on page 268 of the first deed book. Two generations of Cynthiana's good people have there found their last resting-place ; and during that considerable period it was capacious enough for its design, besides making room, in one corner, for the old stone building, in which Harrison Academy was first taught In early times, people here were, no doubt, healthy and long-lived ; and not a few met violent deaths away from home, among the Indians and in various warlike expeditions.
It is not even yet full, and is still used, though rarely, by preference of some families, whose kindred have made their long home in the old cemetery.
In 1868, however, a more eligible situation, larger area, and more distant from the center of town, was thought desirable. This was found about one mile out, on the south side of the Millersburg road. The new ground contains about forty acres, and, within the last few years the good taste and liberality of the managers have rendered the place one of the most beautiful in the State. The site is commanding, and here was the scene of the last battle of Cynthiana, in 1864 ; it has been, therefore, appropriately named Battle Grove Cemetery. We copy the act of incorporation, as preserving the names of the founders, and as exhibiting the authority of the rules under which the property is governed :
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE BATTLE GROVE CEMETERY.
Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of the Commomcealth of Kentucky, Section 1. That Gen. L. Desha, A. H. Ward, John S. Boyd, I. T. Martin, John McKee, R. C. Whemtt, F. G. Ashbrook, Thomas V. Ashbrook, H. Cox, J. S. Withers, T. J. Megibben, S. J. Ashbrook, Hubbard W. Shawhan, John W. Kimbrough, Henry Williams, Charles R. Kimbrough, J. MacKimbrough, C. B. Cook, G. R. Sharpe, J. W. Peck, W. W. Trimble, M. Kimbrough, John H, Dills, James Miller, J. Q. Ward, Andrew Garnett, William Winston, H. M. Keller, J. Levi Patterson, N. C. Dille, J. A. McKee, William H. Roberts, Joseph H. Shawhan, Napoleon B. Wilson, Joseph Howard, Spears M. Smith, Noah S. Patterson, W. H. Forsythe, James N. Snell, George W. Taylor, W. G. Van Deren, J. J. Parrish, D. C. Ferguson, William A. Cook, H. E. Shawhan, John L. Shawhan, J. B. McClintock, James Gray, John C. Wilson, H. C. Eals, Joseph Shawhan, Sr., H. E. McShane, Jacob Reneker, Jr., Amos Ammerman, D. A. Givens, L. Vanhook, W. L. Northcutt, C. C. Carpenter, J. W. Musselman and John S. Day, he and they are hereby made a body politic and corporate in law, under the style and firm of the Battle Grove Cemetery Company, and by that name shall be able and capable in law to have and to use a common seal, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, and to do all such other things as are incident to a corporation. The said company shall have power to purchase any quantity of land in the county of Harrison, not exceeding one hundred acres, and receive a conveyance of the same, with such covenants of warranty as they may think proper. The laud and appurtenances, when conveyed to said corporation, shall be held solely and exclusively for a cemetery and ornamental grounds connected therewith, and shall never be alienated, sold, or used by said corporation for any other purpose than burial lots, as hereinafter prescribed….(more not included).
20. Book: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky: bio of James A. Cook, 1882. 19
Crescent Distillery, located at Cynthiana, present firm C. B. Cook & Co. ; it was bought in 1868 by C. B. Cook ; William Adams admitted as a partner in 1874 ; capital invested, $50,000 capacity, 150 bushels per day annual product, 2,500 barrels ; now in bond, 6,000 barrels. Brand \emdash C. B. Cook, Crescent Distillery ; employ twenty hands at average wages of $2 per day. The distillery is 35x70 feet three floors three brick warehouses with storage capacity for 8,000 barrels feed 800 hogs cooper-shop attached, with capacity of 3,000 to 4,000 barrels per annum.
Ashbrook Distillery, built in 1840, by Abram Keller, and sold to Cook & Ashbrook, in 1861, afterward to Ashbrook Brothers \emdash the present firm \emdash in 1874 capital invested, $40,000 capacity, 300 bushels daily annual product, 2,500 barrels amount in bond, 5,000 barrels. The size of the distillery is 40x60 feet \emdash three floors, with three stone warehouses\emdash capacity, 9,000 barrels employing ten hands, at an average of $1.50 per day. Brand, "A. Keller, Bourbon," and stands very high in the New York market. The brand was bought with the distillery \emdash sweet mash \emdash and has the name of being the best sweet mash in this part of the State. The distillery has made more or less whisky every year since 1 840 its shipping is done from Keller's Station, on Kentucky Central, one and a half miles from Cynthiana. The water supply is received from an excellent well, 160 feet deep. There is a mill adjoining the distillery, one of the oldest in the county. It was built by Mr. Lamb, who also kept a store and carding factory. Lamb used to grind flour, haul it to Claysville, and ship it thence to New Orleans by flat-boat. The mill is now used for the distillery alone, and both are run exclusively by water-power.
Craig's Distillery, at Berry's Station, was built by John M. January in 1853. It was sold to Davis, who ran it a short time, and sold it to S. B. Cook ; he ran it from 1860 to 1867, then sold it to his son, C. B. Cook, who ran it eight months, and sold it to Lair, Redmon & Co. ; they ran it to 1871 then Lair & Kern ran it until 1873 John L. Pugh from 1873 to 1874. It then stood idle until 1880, when it was bought by T. G. Craig, and has been run by him since. It has a capacity of 200 bushels per day, and produces 2,500 barrels annually. The building is 32x64 feet three floors, two warehouses capacity, 3,500 barrels now in bond, 1,800 barrels. Brand, " T. G. Craig." Peed 100 cattle and 500 hogs employ twenty hands at $1.50 per day each get 60 percent of grain from the county.
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Cyrus married Permelia Catherine Knight, daughter of Samuel B. Knight and Catherine Crist, on 19 Nov 1844 in Hagerstown, Washington, MD.1 (Permelia Catherine Knight was born on 9 Dec 1828 in Hagerstown, Washington, MD 9 20 21 22, christened in Mar 1829 in Hagerstown, Washington, MD,22 died on 10 Jun 1905 in Cynthiana, Harrison, KY 20 21 and was buried on 13 Jun 1905 in Cynthiana: Battle Grove Cemetery, Harrison, KY 21.)
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