D. Gardner Cook

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The Seaton family, with genealogy and biographies By Oren Andrew Seaton. Printed in Topeka, Kansas by Crane & Company, 1906.

p. 145

Aurilla Seaton, the eldest daughter, married D. Gardner Cook. They had a son, Willard Cook, who lives in Chicago, Illinois. He married Edith Kisnor, and has two children, Lorie and Harold Cook.

Aurilla Seaton taught school a few summers, the school-house being located on her father's land, only a short distance from the home. She went to spend a summer with her uncles Willard and George Perry, and there met Mr. Cook, who was a maker of wooden pumps and was doing well. They were married, and he built a house and shop in Sandwich, Illinois. Their children were: Willard, born five years after the marriage, and Mary, who was born when her brother was six years old.

After Mrs. Cook died, November 25, 1881, Mr. Cook rented his place in Sandwich, and went back to Red Bank, New Jersey, his old home, where all of his relatives were, stayed ten years, and then returned to Sandwich.

Willard went to Chicago to work when he was old enough, and is a pattern-maker in the McCormick reaper works. He is said to have made all of the models shown by the McCormicks at the Paris Exposition, and is considered a genius at his business.

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