A close friend of James H. Dempsey whom he met in college, Cook graduated as valedictorian of Kenyon College's class of 1882. He married Dempsey's sister Mary Katherine in 1883. Like James H. Dempsey, Cook studied law becoming a prominent Cleveland attorney, and heading the firm of Cook, McGowan and Foote, which represented large corporations, including railroads. Cook and his wife moved into the Spitzer-Dempsey House in 1888, where they raised their four children. After Mary Katherine's death in 1898, Cook and the couple's children continued to live in the house, and the title to the house was eventually conveyed to Ernest Cook out of the estate of his father-in-law John Dempsey who died in 1904. Cook lived in the house until his own death in 1929. The above photo of Ernest S. Cook is from circa 1910. | Source: Orth, Samuel Peter, A History of Cleveland, Vol. 3. Chicago-Cleveland: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1910.Download Original File
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Orth, Samuel Peter, A History of Cleveland, Vol. 3. Chicago-Cleveland: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1910.
