Cooke
Cooke names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Cooke JOHN ESTEN, an American novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN ESTEN, an American novelist; born in Winchester, Va., Nov. 3, 1830. He was an extensive contributor of stories, sketches, and verses to various periodicals, and has written many books, in which are included: "The Virginia Comedians" (1854), "Hilt to Hilt" (1869), "Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee" (1871), "Virginia, a History of the People" (1883), "The Youth of Jefferson," "Surry of Eagle's Nest," "Wearing the Grey," "Pretty Mrs. Gaston," "Virginia Bohemians," etc. He died near Boyce, Va., Sept. 27, 1886.
Cooke JAY, an American financier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAY, an American financier; born in Sandusky, O., Aug. 10, 1821. He entered mercantile life at 15. Having learned banking he founded in 1858 the house of Jay Cooke & Co., which financed the Civil War Bond issues of the United States to the extent of $2,000,- 000,000. The house failed in 1873, causing widespread financial panic. In 1894 he re-established his fortune, investing in Western land and securities. He died Feb. 16, 1905.
Cooke MRS. ROSE (TERRY)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MRS. ROSE (TERRY), an American poet and story writer; born in West Hartford, Conn., Feb. 17, 1827. Her complete poems were published in 1888: "The Gentian" and "The Two Villages" are good representatives. Her best short stories treat of New England rural life. The novel "Steadfast" appeared in 1889. Her finest work appeared originally in the "Atlantic Monthly" and other periodicals. She died in Pittsfield, Mass., July 18, 1892.
Cooke GRACE MACGOWAN, an American writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GRACE MACGOWAN, an American writer, born in Grand Rapids, O., in 1863. She was educated privately. In 1877 she married William Cooke. She was the first president of the Tennessee Woman's Press Club. Her writings include "Mistress Joy" (1902); "Hulda" (1904); "The Power and the Glory" (1910); and "The Joy Bringer" (1912), and several books for children. She was a frequent contributor to magazines.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The biographical facts Collier's set down in 1921 still stand for all four Cookes, but two things have moved. Grace MacGowan Cooke, the only one then still living, went on writing from the artists' colony at Carmel, California, and died in 1944 — so the entry's past tense was premature. Rose Terry Cooke, whom Collier's treats as a minor poet remembered for "The Gentian," has been substantially revalued since the 1970s, when scholars of American regionalism and women's writing made her sharp New England sketches the work she is now read for; John Esten Cooke has moved the other way, his "Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee" now read chiefly as a document of the Lost Cause rather than as history. Jay Cooke's failure in September 1873 remains a fixture of every account of the Panic of 1873 and the depression that followed.
Written for this edition, 2026.