Life and history of Evans Patterson Cook [manuscript], ca. 1974.

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Life and history of Evans Patterson Cook [manuscript], ca. 1974.

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Cook writes about his ancestry, his childhood in Augusta County, Va., and Harrisonburg, Va., pitching for the Shenandoah Shop's baseball team, the depression and sharecropping in the 1930s and 1940s, the South River flood of 1941, maintenance supervisor work for Wilson Memorial High School, Augusta County, his sons' lives, his two bouts with mental illness, his retirement in Staunton, and his assessment of his life.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Cook, Evans Patterson, 1902-

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Reorganized in 1896 from Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. From the description of Records, 1896-1969. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28420979 The Norfolk and Western Railroad was created and organized in 1881 when Clarence H. Clark and his associates purchased property and franchises belonging to the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company. As a result of the purchase, the combined track length owned by Clark and associates was just over 400 miles. By 1900...

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