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Eight hundred and seventieth Meeting. 



December 12, 1894. 



The President Id the chair. 



The President aunouuced the death of Ferdinand Marie 

 de Lesseps, Foreign Honorary Member. 



On the recommendation of the Council, it was 



Voted, That the use of the Academy's room be granted to 

 the Colonial Society of Massachusetts on the third Wednes- 

 day afternoon of each of the five months December to April, 

 in the same way as during the past year. 



The meeting was devoted to a commemoration of the late 

 Josiah Parsons Cooke, President of the Academy. 



ADDRESS OF CHARLES LORING JACKSON. 



Josiah Parsons Cooke, for forty-one years a Resident Fellow 

 of the Academy, Librarian for eight years, Corresponding Secretary 

 from 1873 till 1892, and President in 1892, 1893, and 1894, was 

 born in Boston on October 12, 1827, and died in Newport on Sep- 

 tember 3, 1894. 



He was descended from Major Aaron Cooke, who came in 1630 to 

 Dorchester, Massachusetts, from E^ngland, and aftei'ward was one of 

 the founders of Northampton, where he died in 1690. His son, also 

 named Aaron, lived in Hadley, and it was under his protection that 

 the regicides Goffe and Whalley lay in hiding in that town. Noah 

 Cooke, the fifth in descent from Major Aaron Cooke, after serving as 

 a chaplain in the war of the Revolution, moved to New Hampshire, 

 where a son, Josiah Parsons Cooke, the father of the subject of this 

 memoir, was born, in 1787. After a boyhood passed in Keene he 

 graduated from Dartmouth College in 1807, and then established him- 

 self in Boston as a lawyer, where, in 1826, he married Mary Pratt, 

 the eldest daughter of John Pratt, a well known merchant. 



On October 12, 1827, a son was born, who was named Josiah 

 Parsons Cooke after his father. In 1833 Mrs. Cooke died in Santa 

 Cruz, and her little son, only six years old, and a younger sister, now 

 Mrs. Bennett Hubbard Nash, were left to the devoted care of a faith- 

 ful friend, who did all that was possible to replace the mother whom 

 they had lost. 



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