Death and Legacy
John McCook died at his summer home in Sea Bright, New Jersey, at the age of 66.
The village of McCook, Illinois, is named after him, as is McCook Street on the campus of the University of Kansas.
Read more about this topic: John James Mc Cook (lawyer)
Famous quotes containing the words death and/or legacy:
“I don’t know much about death and the sorriest lesson I’ve learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone’s dying.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)