OBIT: Henry F. COOK, 1931, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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HENRY F. COOK

Henry F. Cook Takes Own Life
Former Editor of the Berlin Record Commits Suicide at Frostburg, Md.

  Henry F. Cook, aged 63 years, was found dead at 6:30 a.m. Monday in a small 
outbuilding in the rear of his residence at 12 Mt. Pleasant Street, Frostburg, 
Md., having bled to death from a self-inflicted wound across his throat.
  Mr. Cook, a member of the Maryland Legislature, had been in ill health during 
recent months and while working Monday, June 8, at his store on Broadway became 
extremely ill.  He was to have been admitted to the Miner's Hospital on Monday 
for an operation, and it is thought that a general breakdown of his health and 
fear of the operation was responsible for his death.
  Mr. Cook was a native of Barton, Md., where he was born May 17, 1868.  He was 
a printer by trade and was a member of Cumberland Typographical Union and was 
secretary and treasurer of the Labor Temple Association.  He had been a printer 
from boyhood and at various times conducted weekly newspapers at various places, 
among them the Berlin Record, some years ago.
  Mr. Cook was always regarded as a citizen of the very highest type. He held 
membership in the Odd Fellows, Junior O.U.A.M., Knights of the Golden Eagle, 
Masonic Fraternity, Eastern Star, Knights of Pythias and the P.O.S. of A.  He 
was a self-educated man and had acquired much knowledge from extensive reading 
and research work.  For many years he took a great interest in the Duke Memorial 
Bible Class of Cumberland and was a frequent visitor to the meetings of that 
organization.
  He was a member of the firm of Cook & Schneider, Frostburg printers, which was 
dissolved after Mr. Cook returned recently from the session of the Maryland 
Legislature.  Mr. Cook retiring from the firm for the purpose of engaging in the 
confectionary business in Frostburg.
  Mr. Cook for many years was one of Frostburg's most active prohibitionists.  
Leaving the prohibition party he became a registered Republican and was one of 
the six citizens of Allegany County elected last Fall to the House of Delegates 
in the Maryland General Assembly.
  Mr. Cook is survived by his aged mother, his wife and three daughters.
  Funeral services were conducted at 3 p.m., Wednesday, at the family home by 
Rev. Winthrop Stilwell, pastor of First English Baptist Church of Frostburg 
assisted by Rev. Austin O. Bota, pastor of Eckhart Baptist Church and the 
Baptist choir.
  The funeral was largely attended and there was a profusion of floral tributes.  
At the grave the ritual of the Junior O.U.A.M. was read by officers of that 
organization.  A delegation from the Maryland Assembly was present.

Meyersdale Republican, June 18, 1931