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:
“Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.”
—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)