Cook, Joseph B

Cook, Joseph B.

a Baptist minister, was born in South Carolina about 1776. He was converted at the age of fifteen, and graduated from Brown University in 1797; pursued his theological studies with Reverend Dr. Furman; was ordained as an evangelist, and successively became pastor of the Eutaw, the Beaufort, and the Mount Pisgah churches. He died at his residence in Sumter District, S.C., August 24, 1833. See Watchman and Reflector, September 13, 1833. (J.C.S.)