Person:Daniel McCook (1)

Daniel McCook was an attorney and an officer in the Union army during the American Civil War. He was one of two Ohio brothers who, along with 13 of their sons, became widely known as the “Fighting McCooks” for their contributions to the war effort.

Reearch Notes and Resources

• For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Daniel McCook.

• see photo at ohiomemory.org
• see The McCook House Civil War Museum website
• see Daniel McCook House at wikipedia
• Father of 9-10 [which is it?] sons called the "Tribe of Dan" of the infamous Fighting McCooks which included 4 Union general officers.

1. ↑ Death Notice. General McCook, in Dayton Daily Journal. (Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States)
   p 1 , 13 Jun 1903.

   ... General McCook was the son of Major Daniel McCook, head of the Tribe of Dan, of the fighting McCooks. Daniel McCook, who was the second son of George McCook and Mary McCormack, was born in Pennsylvania and after his marriage to Martha Lathner they came to Ohio and settled in New Lisbon and later in Carrollton. At the beginning of the war he was in Washington, and although 63 years of age, he at once tendered his service to President Abraham Lincoln. ...

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Photo of Daniel McCook, Sr. with Rifle, in Ohiomemory.org.
3. ↑ Daniel McCook, in Find A Grave.

   [Includes monument photo.]

4.   .

   Title McCook family papers, 1809-1966
   Span Dates 1809-1966
   Bulk Dates (bulk 1850-1900)
   ID No. MSS31963
   Creator McCook family
   Extent 6,500 items ; 19 containers plus 5 oversize ; 7.6 linear feet ; 1 microfilm reel
   Language Collection material in English
   Location Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
   Summary Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs, memorabilia, printed materials, and other papers relating to the Ohio family of "Fighting McCooks" that became prominent through the service of fifteen of its sons in the Civil War. The McCooks were active in legal and military affairs and in national and state politics in Ohio and New York. The larger part of the collection concerns the military and political career of Anson G. McCook (1835-1917).
   Finding Aid Permalink Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012155
   LCCN Permalink LC Online Catalog record for this collection: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78031963
   
   Scope and Content Note
   The papers of the McCook family span the years 1809-1966, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1850-1900. The collection relates to the Ohio family of “Fighting McCooks” that became prominent through the service of fifteen of its sons in the Civil War, seven of whom rose to the rank of general. Daniel McCook and his three sons, Robert, Daniel Jr., and Charles Morris, died of wounds received in action.
   
   The larger part of the collections relates to the military and political career of Anson G. McCook (1835-1917), congressman from New York, 1877-1883; secretary of the U.S. Senate, 1883-1893; Union Army officer; and father of Katharine McCook Knox, the donor of the main body of the papers. The correspondence, principally 1830-1957, includes letters from Presidents Grover Cleveland, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford Birchford Hayes, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), as well as from correspondents such as Cornelius Newton Bliss, Robley D. Evans, Hamilton Fish, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Thomas Nelson Page, Elihu Root, William T. Sherman, Edwin McMasters Stanton, and Mark Twain. Other material consists of scrapbooks, journals and diaries, photographs, printed matter, invitations, autograph albums, other memorabilia, and miscellany.-------------------------------------Daniel McCook served in the Battle of First Manassas

5. ↑ .

   The University Magazine, Volume 4
   April 1891
   70 South Street, New York City, New York
   Entry on Colonel John L. McCook, LL.D. written by Charles S. Gleed pp. 370-372
   books.google.com