The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-19

saw mountain so CALAMITY that he was
assumed his new command, having
been mortally wounded in the charge.
He died July p. 1864.
g. Edwin Stanton McCOok graduated
at the naval academy at Annapolis
and was "A naval officer when the war
broke out; but, preferring the activity
OF a soldier to life on shipboard re-
signed from the navy in the spring Of
1861, went to Illinois. recruited a COM
pany for John A. BOgans Thirty-first
Illinois regiment, and succeeded Logan
ir several grades OF command, his
final rank being that of major general.
At the close Of the war he removed 20
Dakota and was appointed governor Of
that territory by President Grant. He
was fatally shot in a riot at YanktOn
while presiding over a public meeting.
9. Charles Maurice McCOok left Ken
yon college before he was Is years or
age TO serve as a private in the Sec
Ond Ohio infantry. in spite of the fact
that he was rendered an officers COM
mission in the regular army He was
killed in his first battle, Bull Run,
July 81. 1861, while fighting by the side
Of his father.
10. John James McCOok, the ninth
and youngest son, left Kenyon college
ar the age of 16 to enlist in the Sixth
Ohio cavalry, served through the WEr
and came out in 1866 as a colonel before
he was n years old. He then returned
to Kenyon, completed his studies,
graduated from the Harvard law school
and has since achieved distinction ar
the bar in New York as a member Of
the law firm of Alexander & Green.
Colonel McCoOk has taken a prOmi-
nent part in social. political, char
table educational and church affairs.
he is a trustee of Princeton uniVer-
sitv. an elder i'm the Presbyterian
church and declined the portfolio Of
secretary OF the navy in McKinley's
cabinet
II. The members of THE Tribe of
John" were not so numerous. but were
quite as conspicuous as the members
of The, Tribe Of Dan" John McCook
was a doctor. practcing at LISBON, u,
and served during the war as sur
geOu. contributing his entire family to
the federal cause He died at the
military headquarters Of his son Arson
near Washington. Oct IL, 1865. he
contributed five sons to the Union
army. as follows:
p Edward Moody McCOok, law
yer by profession. pioneer IN the
gold fields Of Pixies peak, appointed
lieutenant colonel of cavalry at the
outbreak of the war, performed a num-
Der of brilliant cavalry exploits during
Shermans march to the sea and was
mustered out a major general. He was
United States minister to the Hawaiian
islands and governor of the territory
of Colorado for eight years.
13. Arson George McCOOk. went to
California when a mere boy, during tn.
gold excitement of 1S49; returned east
just before the war. commenced his
law studies in the Office of his cousin,
George w. McCOok, at Steubenville;
raised a company at the first call for
volunteers; rose to the rank of brig
adler general before the close of the
war He removed to New York. served
several terms in congress, was secre-
tary Of the United States senate for
eight years. chamberlain of the city of
New York, and is now publisher of the
Legal Review.
IA Rev. Henry G. McCook. born at
lisbon. educated for the ministry
served through the war as chaplain of
the F,orty-first Illinois regiment, and
now is pastor of a Presbyterian church
at Philadelphia He is distinguished as
a preachersra theOIoRian and as a
student of natural history. and is re-
garded as the highest living authority
upon the habits of ants. spiders and
other insects.
IS. Rhoderick Sheldon McCook. grad
uated at the naval academy in 1859,
served through the war with great
credit in the navy. retired as a COM
mander' in 1885 and died at Vineland,
n. J., in 1886.
16. Rev. John James McCook, born
at Lisbon, before he was II years old
commissioned as lieutenant in the First
Virginia volunteers, which was a regf-
ment recruited in Ohio; served through
the war. and in 1865 entered Trinity
college, Hartford; studied theology, en-
tered the ministry of the Protestant