Biography

10/21/1871 - 11/21/1935


COOK, Calvin E., a Representative from York County; born, October 21, 1871 in Dillsburg, York County, Pa.; graduated, York Academy; teacher (23 years); engaged in a lumbering business; farmer; director, Freystown Mutual Fire Insurance Company; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1917 term; reelected and served 2 more consecutive terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1922); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Dillsburg (1924-1933); appointed, director of the poor, York County (1935); died, November 21, 1935 in Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, Dillsburg Cemetery, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania. 
 


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