Family papers 1879-1991 1910-1940.

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Family papers 1879-1991 1910-1940.

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Primarily correspondence, news clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the career of Joe Cook as an educator and first president of Mississippi Normal College. Also included is documentation on other Cook family members, particularly his daughter, Emily Cook Bickerstaff. Photographs depict Joe Cook, members of his family and scenes from the early years of the college. Memorabilia from daughter Emily and son Everett is also present.

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University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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University of Southern Mississippi

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Bickerstaff, Emily Cook, 1900-1992.

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Cook, Everett, 1908-1980.

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Cook, Joseph Anderson, 1862-1940.

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Born November 16, 1862 at Artesia, Lowndes County, Mississippi to William Henry and Martha Harvey Cook; educated at township schools, Franklin Academy in Columbus, and Vanderbilt University; Married Martha Blanche Harvey in 1885 and had four children; married Lizzie Harris in 1893 and had five children; superintendent of Columbus City Schools, 1901-1910; president of Mississippi Normal College, 1911-1928; Mississippi State Senator, 1932-1940; died February 4, 1940. From the descripti...