Adeline Bassett Cook Strange notes and info

pg 10c L2

Conversation and other correspondence with Adeline
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Notes from a conversation with Adeline Bassett Cook Strange(10) in July 2002 during a visit to her house with Clifton Cook(11).
- Her sister Phyllis Cook(10) went to the Pennsylvania Academy of Art.

- Richard Lamen- is Cynthia’s new name. She was previously married to Bruton Strange(11). Cynthia maiden name was Chandler. Her family was in LA when Barlow Lippincott (engineer) designed a water system for Los Angles and her family. Barlow was married to Josephine Cook(08) sister to John Darwin Shepard Cook.

- George Cook(08) had colitis.

- George was kidnapped by the Kansas City Kid, and took his wife Ethel to Italy to purchase furniture for their new house in Pebble Beach CA.

- George was also involved with WWI bonds.

- George’s house in CA was can be seen in "Passions Weekend", which was the name of the movie filmed there. It starred Rudolph Valentino.

- Bishop's (Right Rev Philip Cook(09) portrait was painted by Catherine Pyle, Howard Pyle’s sister as a gift to Adeline Bassett Cook (the bishop's wife). It is currently held by Philip Geoffrey Cook(11)

- Philip Cook Jr.(10) went to Lenox Academy but left and graduated from Episcopal Acadamy in Philadelphia.

- Adeline Bassett Cook had ordered clothes from Best & Company in New York. When they arrived, they were addressed to Mrs. Phyllis Cook. Adeline thought this was a good name and named one of her daughters Phyllis.

- 1903 – Anita Levin, Philip Cook(09) first wife, died in childbirth and a baby also died. (NY Times obituary published.)


Link to Front Page & Family Members' Names, pg 00
Link to Adeline Bassett Cook Strange(10), pg 10c