Person:Eleutheros Cooke (1)

Name	Eleutheros Cooke, Esq.
Gender	Male
Birth^[2]^[3]	25 Dec 1787	Granville (town), Washington, New York, United States[Note: he is the 2nd son named Eleutheros]
Marriage	Bef 1821	Ohio, United Statesto Martha Carswell
Death^[2]^[3]	27 Dec 1864	Sandusky, Ohio, United States
Burial^[2]		Elkins Park, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United StatesSt. Paul's Episcopal churchyard

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Eleutheros Cooke.

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Eleutheros Cooke, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Biography, in United States. Congress. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2005.

Eleutheros Cooke, a Representative from Ohio; born in Granville, Washington County, N.Y., December 25, 1787; attended the country schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Granville; moved to Indiana in 1817, and thence to Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, in 1819; member of the State house of representatives in 1822, 1823, and 1825; obtained from the Ohio Legislature in 1826 the first charter granted to a railroad in the United States-the Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad-and ground was broken for it in 1832; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-third Congress; resumed the practice of his profession; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1840; died in Sandusky, Ohio, on December 27, 1864; interment in St. Paul's Episcopal churchyard, Elkins Park, Pa.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Family Recorded, in Davis, Charles Henry Stanley, and Thomas L. Hollowak. Early families of Wallingford, Connecticut: with a new index. (Clearfield Co., 1870).

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