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- [COLOR:1,1,1,255,255,255]Mark Henry Cook, son of Augustus and Polly (Parsons) Cook, was born June 27, 1836, in Moriah, New York. Early in life he removed to Brattleboro,Vermont, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War, he offered his services to his country, but he was of such a frail build that he was rejected. He was a good horseman, however, and on September 17, 1861, he enlisted from Brattleboro as a member of the famous First Vermont Cavalry, which made such an enviable record and achieved such fame 1866, Mr. Cook married Emily Melissa for efficiency and bravery that it was equalled by but few other cavalry regiments in the service. Mr. Cook saw extended service, participating in every campaign and taking an active part in all engagements in which his regiment participated until March i, 1864, during 2, 1870, the wife of Frederick H. Colvin, which service he had displayed many feats of daring and bravery. On that date he was selected as one of eight hundred picked men from the Army of the Potomac to participate in General Kilpatrick's attempt to release the Union prisoners at Richmond, Virginia.Cook, with eleven others of his company, were then taken prisoners, five of whom were paroled six months later. Of the six remaining, he was the only one who survived the extreme hardships of the Confederate prisons, in which he was confined for over a year, having been a prisoner during that time at Richmond, Belle Isle, Andersonville, and Florence, Georgia. On March 28, 1865, at the close of the war, Mr. Cook was paroled and he returned to his home in Brattleboro, his health, which had never been of the most robust, seriously affected, and which he never fully regained during the remainder of his life. After returning home from he war and partially regaining his broken health, Mr. Cook again took up agricultural pursuits, continuing thus engaged until about twenty years prior to his death, when he removed to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he continued to make his home until his demise, which occurred in that city, July 21, 1912, at the age of seventy-six years. After removing to Fitchburg he did not engage permanently in any business. In political faith Mr. Cook was a stalwart Republican, and although never a candidate for office, he was always greatly interested in public affairs and was unusually well informed on political issues of the day. On July 21, 1866, Mr. Cook married Emily Melissa Thayer, who was born July 17, 1842, in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, daughter of Roland Sears and Almeda (Barber) Thayer, and to this union were born two children : Benjamin Albert and Ada Louise, born February 2, 1870, the wife of Frederick H. Colvin, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts.[:COLOR]
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