Register entry 229 - Joel Cook

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Visited the Bell Farm on Sept. 5, 1886 - Joel Cook (1842-1910) was a Philadelphia based special correspondent for the London Times, financial editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, author and later a US Congressman. Cook was a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, and wrote about Louis Riel in his book "America,picturesque and descriptive". He was married to Mary J. Edmunds, and they had at least two children.

Cook visited the Bell Farm on Sept. 5, 1886, accompanied by his 16 year-old son George W.C. Cook, also of Philadelphia. Joel Cook wrote a fairly lengthy description of the Bell Farm, including some facts not mentioned in other articles, such as the exemption of four sections of School Lands (at 640 acres per section) from the Bell Farm.

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SOURCES:

• Photo:
  Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Joel Cook
  http://www.archive.org/stream/joelcookrepresen00unit#page/n3/mode/2up

• Other Sources:
  http://www.archive.org/stream/joelcookrepresen00unit#page/10/mode/2up/search/London

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7600067

• http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/book/Union_league_of_Philadelphia.pdf

• Obituary: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9501E6D91F39E733A25755C1A9649D946196D6CF

RESEARCH BY:

Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Sask, and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.

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