Bio: Cook, Alfred (1850 - 19??)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Surnames: Cook, Vandercook

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Cook, Alfred (4 October 1850 - 19??)

Alfred Cook was born in Lloyd Town, Canada, West; October 4, 1850; came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1854, settling on a farm in Calumet county, where he attended high school in Fond du Lac. He came to Marathon County, bought land and cleared a farm, giving some attention to lumber business while the timber on that part of the county traversed by the Wisconsin Central Railroad lasted. He is still farming, devoting himself to stock raising. He has been postmaster in the village of Unity, chairman of the town board of the town of Brighton, and also supervisor of the village of Unity, which municipalities he represented in the county board of Marathon County. He is one of the pioneer settlers of the western part of the county, coming to Unity as the right of way was being cut out, and when only one little shanty stood at the site of Unity, which had been built only a few weeks before to give shelter to the workmen on the railroad. He was a Republican, but claiming to be an independent and acting independently, he was nominated by the Democrats and elected over his Republican opponent, G. E. Vandercook, whose claim of residence in the county was looked upon as a spurious one and only made for political purposes.