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WILLIAM T. COOK, farmer, P. O. Bethel, was born in Maryland March 14, 1813; his parents were Amos and Anna (Matthews) Cook, natives of Pennsylvania, of English, Scotch and Irish descent. They emigrated from Maryland to Ohio in 1828, and settled in Clermont County, where the father died in 1841. The mother died in Brown County, in 1870, aged eighty-four years. The father was a wagon-maker and farmer by occupation. They had a family of eleven children, of whom eight reached their majority; their names were as follows: Charles (deceased), James (died in 1838), William T., Samuel N. (a farmer of this township), Jessie B. (died aged ten years), Amos B. (died in youth), Jacob M. (proprietor of saw-mill and chair factory), Anna E. (wife of Dr. Benjamin Catterton, of Indiana), Sarah (died in 1872), Jane and Hannah; the two latter are living with our subject who has never married and who is wonderfully attached to his brothers and sisters. He came to this county in 1852, and helped to build the Thornton Mill in which he had an interest until just before it burned. He subsequently purchased a farm and has since devoted his attention to farming. He is a well-read and thoroughly posted gentlemen, a Republican in politics but not radical in his views, and withal a very popular citizen.