Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2022 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of Anoka County And the Towns of Champlin and Dayton In Hennepin County, Minnesota by Albert M. Goodrich pub. 1905 - Hennepin Publishing Co., Minneapolis page 201 CHARLES I. COOK was born at Anoka, Jan. 17, 1865. After leaving school he engaged in printing and publishing, and for a few years was half owner and editor of the Anoka Herald. He served as alderman from the Second ward from 1899 to 1901, when he resigned. Joined Company B, Third Regt. Inf. N. G. S. M. in 1887; was elected second lieu- tenant in 1890, first lieutenant in 1894, and regimental quartermaster in 1895. Was back in Co. B as first lieu- tenant in 1897, and at the call for troops for the Spanish- American war, was with Co. B, mustered into the U. S. ser- vice as a part of the Fourteenth Minn., Vols., April 8, 1898. Was honorably discharged from the U. S. service Nov. 18, 1898, and from the state service in 1900. Mr. COOK was married Aug. 16, 1884, to HARRIETTE MAY STEWART. They have three daughters: FLORENCE EMMA, B. FRANCES and CECIL I. ============================================================================