Original: Born as Joseph Cooke and working in the coal mines of Silverdale , Staffordshire during his early life , he emigrated to Lithgow , New South Wales during the late 1880s , and became General-Secretary of the Western Miners Association in 1887 .
Simplified: Sir Joseph Cook ( 7 December 1860 -- 30 July 1947 ) was the sixth Prime Minister of Australia from June 1913 until September 1914 .