John Bayne Cook

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-101537
• Residence: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Store Clerk
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-101536
• Occupation: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Merchant
• Residence: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Misfortune: 1859; killed in trashing machine
• Occupation: 1859, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; foundry proprietor

Notes:

Peter Cook was born on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, came young to New Brunswick, later to Galt. When first arriving he operated a grocery and dry good store. He later partnered with Morris Lutz in the Lutz, Cook and Co. foundry which also was known as the Galt Foundry and Machine Works, still later the company became known as the Cowan & Co. He was killed while loading a thrashing machine at the foundry in 1859.


Cambridge Mosiac, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [abbreviated snippet from original text in book]

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Mr. Cook was killed by a separator falling upon him on the 19th September, 1859. No accident ever happened in Galt which caused more profound sorrow. Two days afterwards, in the Dumfries Reformer, the writer of this sketch made the following among other references to Mr. Cook, from whom he received much friendly counsel in early life : " Mr Cook was born in the year 1814, on the Island of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland, and was consequently in his 46th year. At an early age, he emigrated from there to the Province of New Brunswick, where he resided for a number of years. From New Brunswick the deceased came to Galt, and entered into the mercantile business. Disliking the drudgery of mercantile life, he ultimately became a partner in the Galt foundry. . . . Mr. Cook possessed natural abilities of a high order, which had been cultivated by a good education, and extensive acquaintance with literature. His unbending integrity and uprightness made him universally respected, and the evidences of his zeal in the moral and intellectual elevation of the youth of Galt will hng remain a fitting memento and a glowing tribute to his memory.

Dumfries Reformer

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COOK - We deeply regret to learn that yesterday afternoon our old and much respected friend, Mr. Peter Cook, of the firm of Lutz, Cook, and Co., Founders, Galt, was killed by a thrashing machine falling upon him. He only lived about three-quarters of an hour after the accident. Galt will mourn the loss of one of its most enterprising, useful, upright, and kind-hearted citizens. In private life, Mr. Cook was a most affectionate man, a genuine friend. In the public positions he, from time to time occupied, he proved himself the earnest advocate of every useful and moral work, and to those many rare virtues, he added the faith and works of a zealous Christian.

Hamilton Spectator 22 Sep 1859

Occupation:
Lutz, Cook & Co.

Peter — Penelope Campbell. Penelope was born 18 Jun 1823, Charlottetown, , Prince Edward Island, Canada; died 27 Dec 1886, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Penelope Cook
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-101535
• Residence: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian

Notes:

Death of a Most Respected Lady

On Monday last, after some weeks of weakness and suffering, Mrs. Cook, widow of the late Peter Cook, passed to her rest. The deceased lady was so well known in the Christian record of her life amongst us, her active participation in all good work; her kindly dealing with the poor, that it is only necessary to say she is gone, to point the void created.

There are not many now living in our town who can remember the thrill of horror which went through the community that summer's afternoon now many years ago, when the messenger hurriedly sent for a doctor, gasped out that "Peter Cook was killed up at the foundry." The circumstances are vivid yet to many. The hope that the report was not true; the hurrying to the scene, and the gradual realization that the fatal blow had fallen, and that never more, by man or woman, young or old, would his kindly words be heard - all this will never be forgotten by those who knew Mr. Cook, and respected him as one of our foremost citizens. But if our people mourned for a lost friend the blow to the wife and household can be understood. Christian fortitude enabled them to withstand it and the duties of life were filled to their utmost; but to the wife the joy of this life was ended. She has passed to her well-earned rest and carries with her the loving remembrance of those with whom so many years of her life were spent.

Galt Reporter Dec 3 1886 pg 1