Cuoq, J. A. (Jean André), 1821-1898.

Father Jean André Cuoq, priest, missionary, author and linguist, was born in France in 1866. He entered the Sulpician order in 1843, and was ordained in Paris in 1845. In 1846, he became a missionary to the Indians at the Lake of Two Mountains near the town of Oka in the Canadian province of Québec. He acquired knowledge of local Iroquois and Algonquin dialects and supervised the publication of several religious pamphlets prepared in Algonquin as well as the publication of an Iroquois dictionary. Other publications included "La Livre des sept nations" (1861); "Jugement erroné de M. Ernest Renan sur les langues sauvages" (1864); and "Études philologiques sur quelques langues sauvages de l'Amérique" (1866). Cuoq died at the Lake of Two Mountains mission on July 21, 1898.

From the description of Letter : Oka, [Quebec], to Rev. Albert Osborn, Buffalo, New York, 1888 Jan 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702180388

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