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Cooke, John Rogers, 1833-1891

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Personal name headingCooke, John Rogers, 1833-1891
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Found inNUCMC data from Virginia Historical Society Lib. for Cooke family. Papers, 1855-1949 (Cooke, John Rogers; U.S. and Confederate soldier)
Bio. Dic. of the Confederacy, 1977 (Cooke, John Rogers, 1833-1891; s. of Philip St. George C.; studied civil engineering at Harvard; served in U.S. Army in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona; with outbreak of Civil War joined the Confederate Army where he obtained rank of brig. general; after war was in mercantile business in Richmond, Va., and was active in Democratic politics; founded Old Soldier's Home in Richmond in 1880s)