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knowledge, and it also frequently happens that a man with deep 

 and accurate knowledge may have no skill in description, nar- 

 ration or exposition. But by a peculiarly happy conjunction 

 of capacities Doctor McCook was profoundly equipped as in- 

 vestigator and also a skilful writer. His works, therefore, are 

 a happy combination of scientific accuracy and of the charm 

 which we usually look for only in romances." 



Henry C. McCook was the son of John and Julia Sheldon 

 McCook, and was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, July 3, 1837. 

 His father, a physician, was of Scotch-Irish descent; his mother 

 came from New England. He attended Jefferson College, at 

 Canonsburg. Pennsylvania (now united with Washington Col- 

 lege, at Washington. Pa.,) receiving an A.B., in 1850. He is 

 said to have been a printer's apprentice, then a student of law, 

 but finally studied at the Western Theological Seminary, at 

 Allegheny, Pennsylvania, until 1861. The Civil War breaking 

 out, he assisted in raising the Forty-first Regiment of Illinois 

 Volunteers, becoming a First Lieutenant and Chaplain therein. 

 After being in charge of Presbyterian churches in Clinton, 111., 

 and in St. Louis (where he was exposed to much danger from 

 cholera epidemics), he was called to the pastorate of the Tab- 

 ernacle Presbyterian Church, in Philadelphia, entering his new 

 office in 1870. The church building was then at the southeast 

 corner of Broad street and South Penn Square, where the Betz 

 Building now stands, but the congregation moved to a new ed- 

 ifice, at Thirty-seventh and Chestnut streets, in 1886. At this 

 new location. Dr. McCook continued his ministrations until 

 1902, when ill-health compelled his resignation. Since then 

 he resided at Brookcamp. Devon, about sixteen miles from 

 Philadelphia, devoting himself to literary work. 



Along with his pastoral duties, he found time to act as chap- 

 lain to the Second Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, 

 both at home and in Cuba, during the war with Spain, in 1898 ; 

 to found and to act on the National Relief Commission in the 

 same war ; to reorganize a hospital in Havana ; to re-arrange 

 and mark the graves of American soldiers in Cuba; to serve 

 as chaplain in other semi-military organizations; to take an 



