Cooke, Theodore

Cooke, Theodore a Congregational minister, was born at Northampton Massachusetts, October 27, 1815. In 1842 he graduated from Williams College, and in 1845 from Yale Divinity School. After preaching in various places for a time, he was ordained June 10, 1847, and until 1852 was pastor in Stowe, Mass. In 1854 he went to Menasha, Wis., as a home missionary, and remained until 1857, when he returned to New England, taking charge of the Church in Woonsocket, R.I., and preached there nine years. His health failing, in 1867, he returned to Stowe to reside upon his farm, and died August 27, 1871. For a short time he was editor of the Worcester Gazette. See Cong. Quarterly, 1872, page 437.