City: Franklin
COOK, Henry Howe, attorney at law; born in Williamson Co., Tenn., Nov. 23, 1843; son of Lewis and Margaret Jane (Owen) COOK; father’s occupation, carpenter and farmer; paternal grandparents William and Elizabeth (Howe) COOK, maternal grandparents Nathan and Janie (Hightower) OWEN; educated at Franklin College, Davidson Co., Tenn.; enlisted in the Confederate army during civil war as a private at the age of 17 in 1861, Co. D. 1st Reg. of Inf., Maney’s First; was with his regiment in Northwest Va. until Dec., 1861, and was discharged on account of fever; he reenlisted and joined John L. McEWEN’s Co., 44th Tenn. Inf., on the march to the Battle of Shiloh; was elected Junior 2nd Lieut. and in the same year was promoted to a second lieutenantcy; was with his regiment at Munfordsville, Perryville, Murfreesboro and Chicamauga; wounded at battle of Murfreesboro; after battle of Chicamauga he became Capt. Of Co. I, 44th Tenn. Inf., which regiment was in the brigade of Bushrod JOHNSON, marching with LONGSTREET into East Tenn.; he was at Bean Sta., the assault upon Ft. Sanders at Knoxville and at Dandridge, was also at Port Walthal and Drewey’s Bluff, where he was wounded and captured; he was held as a prisoner of war at Ft. Monroe, Pt. Lookout and Ft. Delaware, and was one of the six hundred officers selected for the purpose of retaliation and sent to Morris Island, S. C., and held under fire for more than a month during siege of Charleston; was sent back to Ft. Delaware in March, 1865, released from prison July 1, 1865; taught school in the year of 1865 Williamson Co., admitted to the bar in 1867; elected Co. Judge in 1870; re-elected in 1878, serving in all sixteen years; elected Chancellor of the Sixth Chancery Division for Davidson and Williamson Cos., Tenn., in 1896, in which position he served six years; appointed a member of the State Board of Law Examiners Nov., 1906, was elected president of that Board, which position he now holds; married Fanny Crockett MARSHALL Aug. 1883; member Masonic Lodge Franklin, Tenn., De Payne Commandery No. 11, Franklin, Tenn.; Democrat; member of the Christian church.
