COOK, FRANCIS AUGUST US

(18431916), naval officer, b. North amp ton, Ma . He served as an ensign under Farragut in the West Gulf, blockading squadron for two years after graduating from Anna polis in 1863. By 1880 he was a commander and took charge of the department of seamanship at Anna polis for three years. Later he served four years as inspector of ordnance at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He became captain in 1896, taking command of the cruiser Brooklyn. The outbreak of the war with Spain in 1898 found him and his cruiser with Captain Schley’s flying squadron, which figured poe, in the destruction of the panish admiral’s fleet at Santiago, Cuba. The Brooklyn pursued and overtook the Cristobal Colon, which ran ashore at Tarquino, where her commander surrendered to Captain Cook. He joined the U.S. Naval Examining Board after the war and retired in 1903., COOK, FREDERICK ALBERT (1865), ont name changed from Koch to Cook). raduated from the University Medical College of New York University in 1891. He was surgeon of the Peary Arctic Expedition in 1901-2 and was also surgeon of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1897-9. Claimed to havé made the ascent of Mt. McKinley, in 1906, and, returning from a trip in the Arctic regions claimed to have reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908. He was received with great honors in Denmark and lectured extensively in the United States and England in 1913 and 1914 but scientists of Copenhagen later declared that the data he submitted was insufficient. Author of Through the First Antarctic Night, 1900; To the Top of the Continent, 1907; and My Attainment of the Pole, in 1909; also wrote several magazine articles.