Individual Details
Judge Isaac Cook
(16 Jul 1768 - 22 Jan 1842)
Notes from Watt Marchman, perhaps from another source, but not cited:
In 1798 he removed from Shippensburg, PA, to Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, and in 1800 he settled at Willow Branch, Union Township, Ross County,Ohio, and resided there until he died Jan. 22, 1842. He was a member of the Methodist Church when he died. Joined about a month before he died.
Judge Cook when a boy served six months in the Revolutionary War, near its close, as a private.
He was elected a Representative from Ross County, in the Legislature of Ohio, in the years 1819, 1824, 1825, 1830. Three terms elected by the Legislature. He was appointed Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Ross County by Governor Edward Tiffin in 1804, elected by the Legislature in 1805, 1810, 1817, and again in 1831, making his total service 27 years. The Probate business of the Court was largely attended to by him.
He was appointed Brigadier General by Governor Worthington in 1816.
Lucy Hall Cook gave the following recollections of her father to RBH on Dec. 14, 1870:
"He was six feet and perhaps two inches in height, slender and perfectly erect to the day of his death. His hair was fine, black, and unusually combed straight back. He resembled the pictures of General Jackson. His complexion was dark, his eyes black and pleasant. He look as much like President [Frederick] Merrick (of Ohio Wesleyan University) as any body I think of. He had his manners. His step was quick and elastic. He lost all of his teeth when he was still a young man. They came out perfectly sound.
"He was fond of singing and knew many songs. He wrote a great deal of poetry. Wrote the Carrier's Address, for New Year's day, a great many years from the years 1800 to 1835 or 1840, for the Chillicothe Scioto-Gazette, the Galaxy, and other newspapers.
"He was never a robust man, had dispepsia (sic), but no serious sickness, or suffering, except once, when he was a member of the legislature in 1830-1831. Dr. James Webb brought him from Columbus to his home in Chillicothe."
Judge Cook was a Justice of the Peace in early times, and was Judge of the elections in Union Township many years.
In 1798 he removed from Shippensburg, PA, to Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, and in 1800 he settled at Willow Branch, Union Township, Ross County,Ohio, and resided there until he died Jan. 22, 1842. He was a member of the Methodist Church when he died. Joined about a month before he died.
Judge Cook when a boy served six months in the Revolutionary War, near its close, as a private.
He was elected a Representative from Ross County, in the Legislature of Ohio, in the years 1819, 1824, 1825, 1830. Three terms elected by the Legislature. He was appointed Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Ross County by Governor Edward Tiffin in 1804, elected by the Legislature in 1805, 1810, 1817, and again in 1831, making his total service 27 years. The Probate business of the Court was largely attended to by him.
He was appointed Brigadier General by Governor Worthington in 1816.
Lucy Hall Cook gave the following recollections of her father to RBH on Dec. 14, 1870:
"He was six feet and perhaps two inches in height, slender and perfectly erect to the day of his death. His hair was fine, black, and unusually combed straight back. He resembled the pictures of General Jackson. His complexion was dark, his eyes black and pleasant. He look as much like President [Frederick] Merrick (of Ohio Wesleyan University) as any body I think of. He had his manners. His step was quick and elastic. He lost all of his teeth when he was still a young man. They came out perfectly sound.
"He was fond of singing and knew many songs. He wrote a great deal of poetry. Wrote the Carrier's Address, for New Year's day, a great many years from the years 1800 to 1835 or 1840, for the Chillicothe Scioto-Gazette, the Galaxy, and other newspapers.
"He was never a robust man, had dispepsia (sic), but no serious sickness, or suffering, except once, when he was a member of the legislature in 1830-1831. Dr. James Webb brought him from Columbus to his home in Chillicothe."
Judge Cook was a Justice of the Peace in early times, and was Judge of the elections in Union Township many years.
Events
| Birth | 16 Jul 1768 | Wallingford, New Haven, CT. | |||
| Marriage | 25 Dec 1792 | Shippensburg, Cumberland Co., PA. - Margaret Scott | |||
| Death | 22 Jan 1842 | Willow Branch, Ross Co., OH | |||
| Probate | 25 Feb 1842 | Ross County, OH |  | ||
| Military | Revolutionary War |
Families
| Spouse | Margaret Scott (1772 - 1833) |
| Child | Eliza Cook (1793 - 1799) |
| Child | Martha Cook (1795 - 1796) |
| Child | Isaac Thompson Cook (1797 - 1873) |
| Child | Lucy Cook (1799 - 1800) |
| Child | Maria Cook (1801 - 1866) |
| Child | Matthew Scott Cook (1803 - 1882) |
| Child | Elizabeth Thompson Cook (1805 - 1844) |
| Child | William Cook (1807 - 1892) |
| Child | John Joseph Cook (1809 - 1880) |
| Child | Lucy Hall Cook (1811 - 1883) |
| Child | Phebe Cook (1813 - 1901) |
| Child | Margaret Scott Cook (1817 - 1887) |
| Father | Colonel Isaac Cook (1739 - 1810) |
| Mother | Martha Cooke (1741 - 1810) |
Notes
Probate
Abstract of Wills, Ross County, Ohio 1798-1848, pg. 67Isaac Cook, of Ross Co., #369, pg. 530. Dated Jan. 13 1842. Proved Feb. 25, 1842. "Son Scott, I suppose, has had his share, also son Isaac" Bequests: To my four daughters: Maria Webb, Elizabeth Nelson, Phoebe McKell and Margaret Boggs.
Bequests to son Joseph, daughter Lucy, son William - Executor
Witnesses: Nicholas Cunningham, James (x) McKell ?, David Cunningham.