Cook, Alexander (1)

a Presbyterian minister, was born at St. Monance, near Glasgow, Scotland, February 4, 1760. He received a moderate English education at Glasgow, and learned the trade of a silversmith. He was at Berwick-on-Tweed in 1778, and emigrated to America in 1783; in 1797 was living in Pennsylvania; in 1802 was licensed, and went as a missionary to the Indians, but remained only a short time. In 1803 he was received into the Presbytery of Erie, and accepted calls from the congregations of Slippery Rock and New Castle, where he continued until 1809. In 1810 he was dismissed from the Presbytery of Erie, and connected himself with that of Hartford. About this time he took a commission to labor in South Carolina and Georgia as a missionary. He was also stated supply at Poland, Ohio, from 1812 to 1814. In 1815 he was received into the Presbytery of Ohio, and installed pastor of the Church of Bethany, which relation was dissolved in 1820. In 1821 he was received by the Presbytery of Allegheny, and in the same year installed as pastor of the churches of Ebenezer and Bear Creek. In 1827 he was received into the Presbytery of Steubenville, and for a year supplied the churches of Annapolis and Bloomfield, Ohio. In 1828 he left his home to organize a Church in a Scotch settlement in Ohio. While on this trip he died, November 30, 1828. See Hist. of the Presbytery of Erie.