Harriet May Cook (1880 - 1949)

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Siggers Edward Cook

Emily Hannah Evans Cook

Harriet May Cook

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Siggers Edward Cook

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Emily Hannah Evans 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 1880, in the year that Harriet May Cook was born, in October, the "Blizzard of 1880" began in North America - considered the most severe winter ever known in the US. Many areas were snowbound throughout the whole winter, which was made famous in Laura Ingalls Wilder's book The Long Winter.

In 1907, by the time she was 27 years old, radiometric dating, a recently discovered technology that could date rocks, found that the earth was 2.2 billion years old which was dramatically older than previously thought. Later refinements and advancements in science would date the age of the earth at over 4.5 billion years.

In 1911, by the time she was 31 years old, the first Indianapolis 500 was run in May. Ray Harroun was the winner - he was an engineer and had retired from racing but he came back for this race. After the race, he retired for good. The purse was $27,550 - the largest offered up to that time - and Harroun received $10,000 for first place. His average time was 74.602 mph.

In 1920, at the age of 40 years old, Harriet was alive when the National Football League, first called the American Professional Football Association, was created. College football was more popular than pro football and rising player salaries were bankrupting league owners. In response, owners created the NFL, using the pro baseball association as a model. Eleven teams were formed: the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, Dayton Triangles, Decatur Staleys, Hammond Pros, Massillon Tigers, Muncie Flyers, Racine Cardinals, Rochester Jeffersons and Rock Island Independents.

In 1949, in the year of Harriet May Cook's passing, comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."