Bios: RENWICK COOK 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
    
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      RENWICK COOK,
  
  [p. 408] of Little Beaver Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, has a
  farm of fifty-five acres located in the southern part of the township,
  along the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad and is engaged in farming
  and dairying. He was born on his present farm October 3, 1838, and is a
  son of James and Jane (Wallace) Cook.
  
  James Cook was born in Ireland, and was fourteen years of age when
  brought to this country by his parents, who first located east of
  Pittsburg. They subsequently moved to Lawrence County and became owners
  of 150 acres of timber land in Little Beaver Township, a part of which
  now forms the farm of Renwick Cook. Both of the grandparents died on
  this place at advanced ages. James Cook assisted in clearing the home
  place, only nine acres of it being cleared at the time it was acquired,
  and there he grew to maturity. He was a mechanical genius and
  successfully prosecuted various trades at different times, including
  carpentering, blacksmithing and stone masonry, but the greater part of
  his time was spent in agricultural pursuits. With his sister, Jane, wife
  of William McClaren, he inherited the home place and for some years he
  lived in the old log house on the farm, a two-story structure, but later
  he erected the brick residence which now stands on the place. He died in
  1871, at the age of eighty-four years, and his widow died in 1876, at
  the age of eighty-four years. They were parents of twelve children, as
  follows: William, John, Benjamin, James, Mary Ann, who was the wife of
  A. Ewing; Daniel, Eleanor W., wife of W. Cochran; David, Margaret,
  Robert, Sarah Jane and Renwick. The two youngest are the only ones
  living. Sarah Jane is the widow of James Haggerty, who died May 30,
  1895, at the age of seventy-two years. She makes her home with her
  brother Renwick.
  
  Renwick Cook was born in the log house which originally stood on the
  home place, and attended the district schools of that vicinity,
  receiving a fair schooling. He has never lived elsewhere than on this
  farm and has always engaged in agricultural pursuits. He has made a
  specialty of dairying, in which he has met with much success.
  
  January 18, 1867, Mr. Cook was united in marriage with Henrietta
  McGinnins, who died October 17, 1871, leaving a son, Allen R., who is
  now an engineer in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The
  latter married Mary Lindsay and they have five children: Henrietta,
  Wilson, Allen, Robert and Renwick. Mr. Cook formed a second marriage
  June 19, 1873, with Miss Jennie E. McAnlis, a daughter of Robert and
  Jane (Patterson) McAnlis, concerning whom may be found the facts in
  detail in the record of James McAnlis. Two children were born of this
  marriage: Iva Dell, wife of Myron B. Heck, of West Pittsburg, by whom
  she has a daughter, Mabel Ruth, and Margaret. In religious attachment,
  the family belongs to the Reformed Presbyterian Church.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  Updated: 16 Oct 2001