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Lyman A. Cook was born in Canisteo, July 22, 

 1830. He is the third child of Atwell and Fanny 

 (Moore) Cook, the former a native of Conway, Mass., 

 born in 1792; the latter a daughter of James Moore, 

 and born in 1796, in Canisteo. Her father was one 

 of the early settlers of Canisteo, and came here with 

 his family about 1791. 



Mr. Atwell Cook is now one of the oldest resi- 

 dents of Canisteo; married in 1823, he and his wife 

 have lived together upwards of half a century, and 

 now reside in Canisteo. 



Their other children are James M., Mrs. Lawrence 

 Hopper, Mrs. Richard Allison, and Mrs. David 

 Corbett ; the three daughters are living. 



Mr. Cook was eleven years of age when his parents 

 removed to Hartsville. His minority was spent on 

 the farm and attending the common school. In the 

 year 1852 he married Polly, daughter of Nathaniel 

 and Sophia Crane, of AVaterloo, Seneca Co., N. Y. 

 Her father was a native of Goshen, Orange Co., and 

 her mother was born in New Jersey ; reared a family 

 of eight children; were farmers, and settled in Harts- 

 ville, in 1853, where the mother died in 1866, aged 

 sixty -seven ; the father died in Canisteo, in 1875, 

 aged seventy-six. 



After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Cook settled in 

 Hornellsville, and he, in partnership with his brother, 

 James M., carried on farming, and to some extent 

 lumbering for nine years; when they removed to 



Hartsville, and after several years' residence there, 

 returned to Hornellsville village, where he remained 

 for two years ; his brother dying in the mean time. 

 After settling the business, he returned to Harts- 

 ville, and in 1872 settled in the village of Canis- 

 teo, where he carried on farming, lumbering, and 

 general business until his death, which occurred 

 Dec. 23, 1878. 



In politics Mr. Cook was active, and a staunch 

 member of the Republican party. While a resident 

 of Hartsville he represented his town in the Board 

 of Supervisors, and after becoming a resident of 

 Canisteo he held no office except as trustee of the 

 village. 



He was an interested citizen in all local improve- 

 ments, good society, and schools ; was trustee of the 

 Canisteo Academy, and also a trustee of the Baptist 

 Church Society. He possessed a generous nature, 

 and integrity and strictness in all the relations of 

 life. In his business relations his character was un- 

 sullied ; his interest in and care for the poor were 

 proverbial. He was a man of untiring industry, 

 and, with a self-reliance characteristic of himself, he 

 carried forward to successful completion whatever 

 he undertook. 



Their children are Mrs. William O. Hamilton 

 and Dwight, living. One daughter, Frankie S. Cook, 

 died at the age of eleven, in September, the same 

 year, prior to the death of her father. 



