Background
Cook, Frederick Albert was born on June 10, 1865 in Callicoon Depot, New York, United States. Son of Doctor Theodore Albert and Magdalene C. (the family name has been changed from Koch to Cook).
Cook, Frederick Albert was born on June 10, 1865 in Callicoon Depot, New York, United States. Son of Doctor Theodore Albert and Magdalene C. (the family name has been changed from Koch to Cook).
Educated Brooklyn, 1878-1885. Callicoon, New York, 1871-1878. Doctor of Medicine University of New York, 1890.
Decorations: Order of Leopold, Belgium. Gold medal of Royal Society, Belgium. Silver medal, Royal Geography Society, Belgium.
Member American, National and Philadelphia Geography societies, Kings Company Medical Society Was surgeon of the Peary Arctic expedition, 1891-1892.
Surgeon of the Belgium Antarctic expedition, 1897-1899, led expeditions to explore and climb Mount McKinley, 1903-1906. Author: Through the First Antarctic Night, 1900.
To the Top of the Continent, 1907. Home: Brooklyn, New New York
Member American, National and Philadelphia Geography societies, Kings Company Medical Society Was surgeon of the Peary Arctic expedition, 1891-1892.
Married Mary Fidell Hunt, June 10, 1902.