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McCook, Daniel 1798-
Military officer; born in Canonsburg.
Pa., June 20, 1798; was educated at Jefferson College, and subsequently settled in Carrollton, O. He was sixty-three years old at the beginning of the Civil War, but offered his services to the government, and entered the army as a major.
He was mortally wounded while trying to intercept Gen. John Morgan, in his raid, and died near Buffington's Island, O., July 21, 1863. Ten of his sons served in the Union army.
Military officer; born in Carrollton, O., July 22, 1834; another son of Major McCook; graduated at the Alabama University in 1858; studied law, and after being admitted to the bar in Steubenville, O., settled in Leavenworth, Kan. At the beginning of the Civil War he entered the Union army as captain of a local company.
Later he was chief of staff of the 1st division of the Army of the Ohio in the campaign of Shiloh.
He became colonel of the 52d Ohio Infantry in 1862, and was assigned to command a brigad
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington and Jefferson College , (search)
Washington and Jefferson College,
an educational institution in Washington, Pa.; formerly two separate colleges, but united under an act of the legislature in 1865, the preparatory and scientific departments being located at Washington, and the sophomore, junior, and senior classes at Canonsburg, the former seat of Jefferson College.
This arrangement proved undesirable, and in 1869 the whole institution was located in Washington, Pa. In 1900 it reported: Professors and instructors, 20; students, 350; volumes in the library, 16,000; productive funds, $263,098; grounds and buildings valued at $272,500; income, $37,914; number of graduates, 3,884; president, Rev. James D. Moffat, D. D.