Finding aid for the Matthew Scott Cook Papers
Title:
Matthew Scott Cook Papers
Repository:
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722
http://www.wrhs.org
Creator:
Cook, Matthew Scott
Dates:
1807-1887
Quantity:
1.40 linear feet (4 containers)
Abstract:
 Matthew Scott Cook (1803-1882) was a surveyor, farmer, businessman and Ohio State legislator, of Chillicothe, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, land agreements and deeds, survey and field notes, financial receipts, legal briefs, travel journals, memoranda and account books relating to Cook's farm; meteorological data; and American Civil War correspondence. Includes 17 diaries of Amos Wheeler, Jr.
Identification:
MS 2129
Location:
closed stacks
Language:
The records are in English

Scope and Content

The Matthew Scott Cook Papers, 1807-1887 and undated, consist of correspondence, land agreements and deeds, survey and field notes, financial receipts, legal briefs, travel journals, memoranda and account books relating to Cook's farm; meteorological data; and Civil War correspondence. Includes 17 diaries of Amos Wheeler, Jr.

This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of Chillicothe, Ohio, and the business and family interests of Matthew Scott Cook and the Cook family. Those studying the history of Ohio politics, the history of business and entrepreneurship in the nineteenth century, and the American Civil War will find this collection useful. Cook was the uncle of United States President Rutherford B. Hayes, and had business interestes in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. The collection includes a journal kept while working, sometimes as a flatboatman, on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and on other waterways in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio from 1815-1817; memoranda and account books relating to Cook's Paint Creek Farm, 1830-1844; journal kept on a trip to Quebec, Saratoga, and Boston, 1852; several volumes containing meteorological data, 1860-1884; letters from several nephews who served in the Civil War from his son, Edward T. Cook, Company D. 89th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865; and two letter books, 1873-1881. Correspondents include John R. Bailey, C. G. W. Comegys, Samuel Galloway (1811-1872), Rutherford B. Hayes (1882-1893), Isaac Moore, Joseph T. Reynolds, Isaac C. Riggin, and John L. Taylor (1805-1870).

Statement of Arrangement

The collection is arranged by document type, then by family member name.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects:

Agriculture -- Ohio -- Finance.
Chillicothe (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
Cook family.
Cook, Matthew Scott, 1803-1882.
Massachusetts -- Description and travel.
Meteorology -- United States -- Observations.
Mississippi River.
New York (State) -- Description and travel.
Ohio River.
Quebec (Province) -- Description and travel.
River life -- United States.
Ross County (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
United States -- Politics and government.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 2129 Matthew Scott Cook Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Detailed Description of The Collection



Matthew Scott Cook Papers, 1807-1887; undated

Box 1 / Folder 1
Letters of Dr. Cornelius George W. Comegys and family, 1840-1866




Box 1 / Folder 2
Correspondence and other material of Edward T. Cook, 1863-1874




Box 1 / Folder 3
Cook family letters, 1852-1864




Box 1 / Folder 4
Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes, 1853




Box 1 / Folder 5
McKell family letters, 1862-1863




Box 1 / Folder 5
Letters of Isaac S. Nelson, 1862-1863




Box 1 / Folder 5
Correspondence of George Porter, 1841-1850




Box 1 / Folder 6
Reynolds family letters, 1830-1867




Box 1 / Folder 7
Scott family letters, 1838-1866




Box 1 / Folder 8
Tiffin family papers, 1807-1861




Box 1 / Folder 9
Webb family papers, 1831-1867




Box 1 / Folder 10
Miscellaneous non-business and Civil War letters, 1852-1867




Box 1 / Folder 11
Letters and petitions to Matthew Scott Cook as Ohio State Representative, 1850-1851




Box 1 / Folder 12
Miscellaneous business correspondence, 1826-1882




Box 2 / Folder 1
John R. Bailey letters, 1844-1851




Box 2 / Folder 1
Samuel Galloway letters, 1847




Box 2 / Folder 2
Letters of John Madeira, 1851




Box 2 / Folder 2
Letters of Maynard and Hadley, 1878-1881




Box 2 / Folder 2
Letters of William T. McClintick, 1851




Box 2 / Folder 3
Letters concerning the real estate suit of the heirs of John McIver, 1848-1851




Box 2 / Folder 4
Letters and non-correspondence concerning controversy between William Morgan, Jr. and Nancy Morgan and Matthew Scott Cook, 1859-1871




Box 2 / Folder 5
Letters and non-correspondence of Isaac Moore, 1854-1873




Box 2 / Folder 6
Letters of Battael H. Moore, 1857-1862




Box 2 / Folder 6
Letters of Isaac Riggin, 1862-1872




Box 2 / Folder 7
Henry W. Smith letters, 1859-1861




Box 2 / Folder 7
John W. Smith letters, 1854-1855




Box 2 / Folder 7
M. L. Smith letter, 1855




Box 2 / Folder 8
Letters and non-correspondence of Henry Stanbery, 1845-1854




Box 2 / Folder 8
Letters of C. B. Stanbery, 1848




Box 2 / Folder 9
Letters of John Lampkin Taylor, 1848-1854




Box 2 / Folder 10
Correspondence and non-correspondence concerning the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad Company, 1856-1861




Box 2 / Folder 11
Correspondence and non-correspondence concerning the N. P. Isaacs estate, 1870




Box 2 / Folder 12-13
Letter book, 1872-1881




Box 3 / Folder 1
Deeds, promissory notes, surveys, leases, tax bills, receipts, and accounts, 1814-1883




Box 3 / Folder 2
Paint Farm account books, 1830-1845




Box 3 / Folder 2
Drover's account book, 1831




Box 3 / Folder 2
Minutes of canal boat association, 1831




Box 3 / Folder 2
Surveys, undated




Box 3 / Folder 3
Account books and day books, 1832-1838




Box 3 / Folder 4
Payroll records and memoranda of land sales, 1833-1835




Box 3 / Folder 4
Field notes and accounts, 1841-1868




Box 3 / Folder 5
Account books, 1842-1847




Box 3 / Folder 6
Account book, 1852




Box 3 / Folder 6
Survey and corn accounts, 1853-1875




Box 3 / Folder 6
List of contributions to the War, 1861




Box 3 / Folder 6
Autograph album, undated




Box 3 / Folder 7-8
Meteorological data books, 1860-1884




Box 3 / Folder 9
Household and personal bills and receipts of the Cook family, 1839-1887




Box 4 / Folder 1-6
Diaries, 1815-1817




Box 4 / Folder 7
Bibliographic data on Amos Wheeler, Jr., key code to diaries, silhouette, and miscellaneous bibliographic material, undated