Elizabeth Alice Cook (1866 - 1949)

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Caldwell John Cook

Harriet Fletcher Cook

Elizabeth Alice Cook

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Caldwell John Cook

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Harriet Fletcher Cook

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Evelyn Lorraine Cook

My grandmother Ellen V Cook nee Hart

1983 Freeport High School Girls' J.V. Basketball

Vanessa Cook Freeport High School - 1986

Vanessa Cook aka Ness - Freeport Long Island

Roy Houston Cook Sr

Bertha Venus “Bert” (Walser) Cook

Ann Cook Whitman

Ann Cook Whitman

Greenwood Cemetery pond in Hamilton, Ohio, 1995

Bill A Cook Sr

Joe Coco

Jennie Cook born Batchelor

Norma Cook

Milt & Mary Milam Cook

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In 1866, in the year that Elizabeth Alice Cook was born, on May 10th, the "banker's bank" - London bank Overend, Gurney and Company - collapsed, beginning the Panic of 1866. Unemployment went up to 8% and wages went down. Only about 16% of joint-stock companies - a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders - weathered the Panic.

In 1884, by the time she was 18 years old, on December 6th, the Washington Monument was completed. Building began in 1848 but was stopped because of lack of funds and also due to the Civil War. It would be dedicated in 1885. At the time of its completion, it was the tallest structure in the world.

In 1918, by the time she was 52 years old, in July, Russian revolutionaries executed the former Tzar Nicholas II and his immediate family. While it was rumored that two of the children had survived, it was later proven through DNA analysis - when their bodies were found - that the entire family had been killed.

In 1938, at the age of 72 years old, Elizabeth was alive when on October 30th, a Sunday, The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast Orson Welles' special Halloween show The War of the World's. A clever take on H.G. Wells' novel, the show began with simulated "breaking news" of an invasion by Martians. Because of the realistic nature of the "news," there was a public outcry the next day, calling for regulation by the FCC. Although the current story is that many were fooled and panicked, in reality very few people were fooled. But the show made Orson Welles' career.

In 1949, in the year of Elizabeth Alice Cook's passing, on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.