Edward Bailey Cook

Edward Bailey Cook¹

• Birth*: 4 October 1879; Pottstown, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania¹
• Marriage*: 4 September 1906; Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania; at home of bride, by Rev. Thomas J. McCarty, pastor of St. Peter's Catholic Church; Spouse:Mary Josephine McGauley Repplier^2,3,4
• Death*: 13 October 1918; Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio⁵
• Burial*: Old Saint Aloysius Cemetery, Pottstown, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania⁶

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• Note*: Newspaper article, 24 Aug 1909
  
  Edward B. Cook Is Mentioned
  
  Leaders Are Discussing Local Iron Man as Likely Candidate for State Senator
  
  Political forecasters say that Republican leaders in the upper end of this county are grooming Edward B. Cook, of Pottstown, for the next State Senator nomination. They state that the nomination would likely prove a popular one and that the upper end man may land it.
  
  Mr. Cook is manager of the Warwick Iron and Steel Company and is a son of President Edgar S. Cook, of that company. He is a Yale honor man, and Republican leader in the Town Council.⁷
• Note: Obituary - Daily Pottstown Ledger, Mon. Oct. 14, 1918
  
  Edward B. Cook Dies In Cleveland
  
  Former Manager Of Warwick Furnaces Here Is Claimed By The Influenza
  
  Passed Away Sunday Afternoon After Week's Illness - Prominent in the Iron World - Associated With the Picand-Mathers Company
  
  Ill for a week with influenza and pneumonia, Edward Bailey Cook, formerly of Pottstown, a son of the late Edgar S. Cook, died at his residence in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The word will cause deepest regret among Mr. Cook's host of friends here in his native town. He left here seven years ago to become general manager for the Picano-Mathers Co., a big iron manufacturing and mining firm, of Cleveland. Mr. Cook was an iron expert and was rated high in ability and executive powers in his profession. For years he was with Warwick Iron and Steel Co. in Pottstown and operated the blast furnaces here.
  
  Mr. Cook was 39 years old. He married Mary Repplier, of Reading, who survives him with five children. His mother, Mrs. Josephine Cook, resides at Redlands, Cal. His brother, Dr. Joseph W. Coo, is now returning to Teheran, Persia, where he has been doing medical mission work for the Presbyterian Church. Another brother, Richard, resides at Easton, Pa., and a third brother, Harry, is in the Army.
  
  While a citizen of Pottstown Mr. Cook was active in work for civic betterments. he was a valuable member of the Town Council for some years and his progressive leadership came to be recognized as a valuable asset. His removal to Cleveland was a community loss.
  
  The remains are to be brought to Pottstown for burial.⁸
• Note: Obituary - Iron Age
  
  Edward Bailey Cook, assistant manager of the blast furnace department of Pickands, Mather & Co., Cleveland, having supervision over the blast furnaces of the Toledo Furnace Co., Toledo, Ohio; United Furnace Co., Canton, Ohio, and Perry Iron Co., Erie, Pa., died Oct. 13 of pneumonia, following an attack of the Spanish influenza. He was ill only a week. Mr. Cook, who was 39 years of age, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, and then became a furnace worker at the plant of the Warwick Iron & Steel Co., Pottstown, Pa., now operated by the Eastern Steel Co., and of which his father , the late Edgar S. Cook, was president. After being connected with the plant five years he was made general manager. He severed this connection in 1912 to take the position with Pickands, Mather & Co., which he held until his death. He was a man of unusual geniality and made friends with all with whom he came in contact. He was a member of the Country, Union and Cleveland Athletic clubs and Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Toledo, Erie and Canton clubs and before his sickness was an active worker in the present Liberty loan campaign. He was married in 1906 and leaves his widow and five children. The body was taken to Pottstown for burial.⁹
• Note: Death Certificate, State of Ohio
  Edward Bailey Cook
  d. 13 Oct 1918, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio
  Physician had attended Oct 6 to Oct 13, 1918.
  Cause of death: Pneumonia acute lobar, duration 2 days
  Contributary: Influenza, duration 10 days
  b. 4 Oct 1879, Pottstown, Pa.
  Employer: Pichand Mather Co.
  Wife: Mary R. Cook
  Father: Edgar S. Cook, b. Philadelphia, Pa.
  Mother: Josephine Bailey, b. Pottstown, Pa.
  Informant: Mrs. E. B. Cook
  Removal to: Pottstown, Pa.⁵
• Note: Will Index, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania
  
  Estate: Edward B Cook
  Residence: Pottstown
  Will Proven: Oct 21, 1918, Bk 49, Pg 343
  Date of Death: Oct 13, 1918
  Inventory Filed: Nov 6, 1918, Bk 19, Pg 555
  Account Filed: July 7, 1909
  Coll. App. Filed: July 30, 1919
  
  [Note. FamilySearch does not have copy of this recent of probate records for Montgomery County.]
  [Also note. The FamilySearch "General index 1803-1939" for Cuyahoga County, Ohio, probates was searched, with nothing found for Edward B. Cook.]¹⁰