Ransom Cook [SEP] date of birth
Ransom Cook
Ransom Cook (1794 – 1881) was an inventor who lived much of his life in Saratoga Springs, New York.
One of nine children of furniture maker Joseph Cook and Mary Ann Tolman, he was born in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1794. His family moved to the village of East Line (now Malta, New York) around 1802, where his father opened a furniture shop.
In 1813, Cook set up a shop of his own in Saratoga Springs. Five years later he married Rachael
help. While waiting, however, most of them begin to cut rafts, each for himself, out of the sides and decks. The ship has not yet sunk despite the leaks so caused, and those who have acquired stores of wood in this way may use them to cook their food, while the more seamanlike look on cold and hungry. The population lack courage and energy as well as patriotism."
- Start and End Date: Oct. 1921 – Sep. 1922
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