1912: G.J. Cook

G.J. Cook, West Oxford

Born in 1855 in West Oxford Township, George J. Cook was a longtime farmer near Beachville, Ontario. He served as Reeve for the Township from 1910-1912, and was elected as Warden for the County in 1912; a position his father Gordon H Cook held in 1875.

George J. Cook was a member of the Folden’s Methodist Church prior to moving to Woodstock in his later years. There he became interested in the Oxford Milk Products Co. Ltd. of which he was president until the time of his illness. He would pass away on November 27, 1923, at the age of sixty-eight, and is buried in Hillview Cemetery, Woodstock.