JOHN JAMES

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JOHN JAMES MCCooK (b. 1845), the youngest brother of Alexander McDowell McCook, served in the West and after-wards in the army of the Potomac, was wounded at Shady Grove, Virginia, in 1864, and in 1865 was breveted lieutenant-colonel of volunteers; he graduated at Kenyon College in 1866, subsequently practised law in New

York

City, where he became head of the firm Alexander & Green; was a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church, and was a member of the prosecuting committee in the Briggs heresy trial in 1892-1893.
His

cousin

, ANSON GEORGE MCCOOK (b. 1835), a son of John, was admitted to the

Ohio

OHIO

bar in 1861, served throughout the Civil War in the Union Army, and was breveted brigadier-general of volunteers; he was a Republican representative in Congress from New

York

in 1877-1883; and in 1884-1893 was secretary of the United States Senate.
Another son of John McCook, EDWARD MOODY MCCOOK (1833-1909), was an efficient cavalry officer in the Union army, was breveted brigadier-general in the regular army and major-general of volunteers in 1865, was United States minister to

Hawaii

HAWAII (HAWAIIAN or SANDWICH ISLANDS)

in 1866-1869, and was

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of Colorado Territory in 1869-1873, and in 1874-1875.
His brother, HENRY CHRISTOPHER MCCOOK (b. 1837), Was first lieutenant and afterwards chaplain of the 41st Illinois, was long pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and was president of the American Presbyterian Historical Society, but is best known for his popular and excel-lent works on entomology, which include: The Mound-meking Ants of the Alleghanies (1877); The Natural History of the Agricultural Ants of

Texas

TEXAS

(1879); Tenants of an Old Farm (1884); American Spiders and their Spinning-work (3 vols., 1889-1893), Nature's Craftsmen (1907) and Ant Communities (19o9).
Another brother, JOHN JAMES MCCOOK (b. 1843), a

cousin

of the lawyer of the same name, was a 2nd lieutenant of volunteers in the Union army in 1861; graduated at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1863, and at the Berkeley divinity school in 1866; entered the Protestant Episcopal ministry in 1867, and in 1869 became

rector

RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

of St John's, East Hartford, Connecticut; became professor of modern languages in Trinity College, Hartford, in 1883; in 1895-1897 was president of the board of directors of the Connecticut reformatory; and wrote on prison reform and kindred topics.

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