From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 686-687.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


OLIVER COOK

Oliver Cook, editor of the MARSHALL AND WETZEL NEWS, an influential 
paper published in Cameron, W.Va., was born May 5, 1852, in Wetzel 
county.  There he was reared to manhood and educated in the common 
schools, after which he attended the Fairmount Normal school, where 
he was graduated in 1880, the highest of a class of thirteen.  He 
taught school both before and after graduation, during a period of 
eight years, and was quite successful in that profession.  In 1882-3 
he was the principal of the Cameron graded school.  In 1885 he 
embarked in the printing business as the proprietor of a small job 
office, and his business gradually increasing, he was able with the 
assistance of his partner, S. P. Carney, of Littleton, to establish 
the NEWS on a sound basis, with one of the best equipped country 
offices in this region. This journal is prosperous and has a large 
and growing circulation.  Mr. Cook is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, in politics is a liberal republican, and is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity.  He was married March 18, 1882, to 
Mary E., daughter of James N. and Eliza Carson, highly esteemed 
residents of Martin's Ferry, Ohio.  To this marriage have been born 
three children: Alice V., Ella and an infant son. 

(Linda Fluharty)