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Cook family papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 1389

Scope and content

Mortgages and deeds for lands in Genesee County, for David Cook, Elias Cook, and Irving D. Cook. Also, reminiscences by Irving Cook recalling pioneer days in western New York, including living conditions, farming practices, the coming of the railroad, potash manufacture, the Erie Canal, the country school, and other matters.

Scope and content

Also, typed transcript of wire recording interview made by Gould Colman with Irving C. H. Cook of South Byron, N.Y. concerning the part he played in the Farmers' Institute program in New York State, 1915-1918, and some mention of the history of the Cook family in Genesee County, N.Y, February 15, 1954.