Simon S. Cook

Simon S. Cook
Source: Library and Archives Canada

Simon Sephrenus Cook (September 15, 1831 – May 15, 1892) represented Dundas in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1867 to 1874.

He was born in Williamsburgh in Dundas County in Upper Canada in 1831 and educated at the Potsdam Academy in Potsdam, New York. He lived in Morrisburg and was involved in the timber trade. In 1881, he was appointed registrar for the county. His brother James William represented Dundas in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and his brother Hermon Henry served in both the federal and provincial legislatures.

References

• The story of Dundas : being a history of the County of Dundas from 1784 to 1904, J. Smyth Carter
• Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
• A Cyclopæedia of Canadian biography : being chiefly men of the time ... GM Rose (1886)