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3048 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSpendent Order of Odd Fellows and the Order of Railway Conductors,, and isan active member of the Atlanta Bar Association.On the 27th of April, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Coburnto Miss Ida Z. Mallory, who likewise was born and reared in Georgia and whois a daughter of Augustus H. Mallory, a representative farmer and navalstores operator. The three bhildren of this union are Zoe Louise, WilliamSprigman, Jr., and Mary Augusta, all of whom remain, at the parental home.WILLIAM S. COOK, M. X). With characteristic earnestness and singlenessof purpose has Doctor Cook bent his energies to achieving worthy successin his exacting profession, with the result that he holds secure place as oneof the able and resourceful physicians and surgeons of Georgia and as suchmerits specific consideration in this history. He is one of the leaders in theranks of his profession in Dougherty County, with residence and headquartersin the fine little City of Albany, the county seat.Doctor Cook was born at Bell Mills, Cleburne County, Alabama, on the19th of August, 1884, and is a son of George Washington Cook and MalindaJ. (Pote) Cook, the former a native of Alabama and the latter of Jonesboro,Clayton County, Georgia, whence her parents removed to Alabama whenshe was a girl. The parents of Doctor Cook now reside at Bowdon, CarrollCounty, Georgia, and the father has given the major part of his active lifeto effective association with the basic industries of agriculture and stockgrowing.He celebrated in 1916 his sixty-ninth birthday anniversary, andhis wife her sixty-seventh and they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary February 10, 1916. The Cook family was insistently loyal to the causeof the Confederacy during the stormy period of the Civil war, and thoughGeorge W. Coo-k was too young to enter military service, his brother Frankwas a valiant soldier in the Southern ranks during virtually the entire periodof the ' war between the states of the North and the South. Of thechildren of George W. and Malinda J. (Pote) Cook, Dr. William S., of thisreview, was the ninth-in order of birth, and concerning the others the following brief data are entered: Vertus A. is a resident of Henin, Cleburne County,Alabama; John E. B. was a resident of Bell Mills, that county, at the timeof his death, which occurred when he was thirty-eight years of age; Eva, whodied in 1903 became the wife of Wood Hanna of Heflin, Alabama; George R.resides at Carrollton, Georgia; Amos D. remains at the old home of the family, at Bell Mills, Alabama; Mrs. Lilla McEachern is a resident of Montieello,Florida, and Mrs. Rosa McClindoii of Coleman, Perry County, Alabama;James is deceased; Mrs. Love Sherrell is a resident of Bowdon, Georgia; Dr.Henry M. is engaged in the practice of medicine at Tampa, Florida; W. B.is serving in the United States army and in 1916 was stationed at Belfast,Washington; Mrs. Minnie Jacobs maintains her home at Waco, Georgia;and Ozro resides in the City of Lexington, Kentucky.As a boy Dr. William S. Cook accompanied his parents on their removalto Georgia, and his early education was gained principally in the publicschools of Bremen, Haralson County, this state. A member of a largefamily of children, he early began to depend largely upon his own resources, and to his own energy and ambition is due his advancement to hispresent status as a man of liberal education and as a physician and surgeonadmirably equipped for his chosen profession. Not to be deflected from thecourse of his ambition, he finally entered the Atlanta College of Physicians& Surgeons, in which excellent institution he was graduated as_a member ofthe class of 1907 and with the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. Aftergraduation he had the good judgment to reinforce . himself still furtherthrough valuable and diversified clinical experience, the same having beengained by service of one year as interne in St. Joseph's Hospital, in the Cityof Savannah, and by a similar period of association with Toh Infirmary, in