Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . d one term as president. In every rankto which he has been appointed, his record has been the same—that ofa painstaking, efficient and upright official. Commissioner Cook is a Californian by birth, having been bornin Marvsville. Yuba County, on February 10. I860. He is a XativeSon of the Golden A\est, and highly esteemed in the order. Flisfather, William X. Cook, a California pioneer. \vas a native of [Mary-land, well known during all his life as a San Francisco contractor,while his mother was a^Kentuckian. The future Chief and Commis-sioner, when e
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . d one term as president. In every rankto which he has been appointed, his record has been the same—that ofa painstaking, efficient and upright official. Commissioner Cook is a Californian by birth, having been bornin Marvsville. Yuba County, on February 10. I860. He is a XativeSon of the Golden A\est, and highly esteemed in the order. Flisfather, William X. Cook, a California pioneer. \vas a native of [Mary-land, well known during all his life as a San Francisco contractor,while his mother was a^Kentuckian. The future Chief and Commis-sioner, when eight years old, was taken by his parents to San Fran-cisco, where he was educated in the public schools, attending Spring\alley and famous old Lincoln Evening School. \\hile he has attimesvisited other cities, on several occasions for the purpose of aidingby his experience and advice the organization or reorganization ofpolice departments therein, San Francisco has always been his is a married man, and the father of two San Francisco is the greatest commercial city of the westerncoast of America, and bears the same relation to the Pacific Oceanthat Xew York does to the Atlantic, having a larger population thananv citv on the west coast of Xorth or South America, with a land-locked harbor of 450 square miles, and a deep-water outlet to thePacific (Vean, whose waters wash the shores of the mpst fertilecountries in the world. 90 Municipal Blue Book of San Francisco
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