[Cook] was born at Brockport, N. Y.

The evidence

• “Cook, the son of Josiah F. and Mary Amanda (Kingsbury) Cook, was born at Brockport, N. Y., June 28, 1846. His father was a native of Vermont ; his mother, of New York state.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 390 / book p. 883

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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