Hi Everyone, I found this at the usgenweb.com site for Monroe Co, New York. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/MonroeBios?read=37 I hope it helps someone. Ellie COOK Posted by Dick Halsey <halsey@eznet.net> on Sat, 27 Jun 1998 Surnames: >From "Landmarks of Monroe County, NY" (1895) Part III, p. 11 Cook, Willis C.. M. D., was born in Bergen, Genesee county, June 25, 1832. Was educated in the common schools and in 1883 entered the medical department of the Niagara University of Buffalo; in 1884 he entered the Northwestern University of Ohio, medical department, and in 1885, graduating from the Toledo Medical College in the same year. He located in Brockport where he engaged in the practice of his profession, and is now enjoying a very large practice. In 1855 he married Adeline Hawks, who died in 1857; second he married Mary, daughter of Philip Williams of Paw Paw, Mich., and their children are Francis W., Karl R., Jay W., Curtis L. and Lenoir. Dr. Cook served during the late war as follows: First enlisted in November 16, 1861, as a sergeant in Co. K, 13th Mich. Vol. Inf., and was discharged at Detroit for disability November 3, 1862; enlisted again as veterinary surgeon 9th Mich. Cav., and served till the close of the war, being discharged at Lexington, N. C., July 21, 1865. His father, Curtis Cook, was a native of Pompey Hill, Onondaga county, and settled in Bergen in an early day, later moved to Clarendon, Orleans county, where he died December 1, 1883, aged eighty-one years; he married Betsey Snow Brown, daughter of Elijah Brown of Vermont, who was one of the first three white men to settle in Byron; took a farm where he died in 1852, at the age of eighty-six years. Lemuel Cook, grandfather of Willis Cook, was a native of Norwich, Conn., and served in the Revolutionary war under General Washington, who personally signed his discharge papers. After the war he settled at Pompey Hill, and later moved to Bergen, from there he went to Clarendon, where he died at the advanced age of one hundred and seven years, the only Revolutionary soldier known to be alive at that date, March 6, 1863. Betsey Snow, wife of Curtis Cook, still lives on the old homestead in Clarendon at the age of ninety-one years.