Early Life
Cooke was born at Sandusky, Ohio, the son of Eleutheros Cooke (1787–1864) and Martha Carswell Cooke. Eleutheros Cooke was a pioneer Ohio lawyer and Whig, a member of the Ohio General Assembly and member of Congress from Ohio in 1831-1833.
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