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rapidly forging to the front as manufacturers of fine pharmaceuticals, 

 and later for E. Merck, of Darmstadt, who was about this time estab- 

 lishing a branch house in the United States. 



Mr. Cook's experience up to 1893 seems to have been a prepara- 

 tion for what may be termed the business of his life, as in this year 

 he became general manager and later vice-president of the New York 

 Quinine and Chemical Co. which specialized in the manufacture of a 

 limited line of fine medicinal chemicals. Mr. Cook's intimate and 

 favorable acquaintance with the leading users, dispensers and pre- 

 scribers of these goods, with his great ability in selecting the best 

 methods of presenting them to their attention, scored an immediate 

 success for his Company and the N. Y. O. chemicals became known 

 and favored throughout the length and breadth of the land. 



It was at this time that Mr. Cook, as the representative of his 

 company became a steady worker in the National Wholesale Drug- 

 gists Association ; he regularly attended its meetings and was always 

 willing to place at the disposal of its committees or members the 

 knowledge gained from his wide experience. He was for a number 

 of years either a member or chairman of its Committee on Rates and 

 Routes, while his systematic methods and social qualities made him a 

 highly esteemed member of the Committee on Arrangements and En- 

 tertainment, the confidence of the trade in him and in his executive 

 ability being such that on two occasions when attendance of members 

 at meetings of the Association was expected to be specially large, the 

 entire arrangements for entertaining were placed in his hands with 

 such ample funds that after providing what the members considered 

 lavish entertainment, he returned a large percentage of the funds en- 

 trusted to him to the original subscribers. 



For 20 years Mr. Cook was a member of the Drug Section of the 

 New York Board of Trade and Transportation, serving in all capacities 

 where his intimate knowledge of the drug trade and the men engaged 

 in it would prove useful. He was Chairman of the Section in 1904, 

 was Chairman of its Legislative Committee for many years, and for a 

 number of years preceding his death was one of the managing directors 

 of the Board. 



In 1896 Mr. Cook became a member of this College, qualifying 

 as life member in 1907. In 1903 he was induced by the Nominating 

 Committee of that year (one of its members being W. T. Ebbitt and 

 its Chairman Ewen Mclntyre, who well knew Mr. Cook's business 

 ability) to accept a nomination for Trustee, and upon his election he 



