Background
Cook, Ansel Granville was born on April 18, 1862 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Captain William and Harriet (Blish) Cook.
Cook, Ansel Granville was born on April 18, 1862 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Captain William and Harriet (Blish) Cook.
Educated Friends Academy, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Pierce Academy, Middleboro. Doctor of Medicine College Physicians and Surgical (Columbia), 1887. Doctor of Science, Trinity College, Connecticut, 1926.
Practiced at Hartford, Connecticut, since 1887. Was orthopedic surgeon, general surgeon, now consultant surgeon Hartford Hospital. Consulting surgeon Litchfield Company Hospital (Windsted, Connecticut), Middlesex (Connecticut) Hospital, Municipal Hospital (Hartford).
Captain Medical Roman Catholic, 1917, and in charge of orthopedic surgery and instruction in a group of Southern camps.
At Fort Sam Houston, Texas, January 1918-March 1919. Commissioned major, Medical Corps, United States of America, June 1918.
Lieutenant colonel M.R.C., United States of America, April 13, 1920.
Fellow American College Surgical.
Married Annah H. Richardson, June 30, 1891. Children: Katherine Cary (Mistress Alfred Ely Pulford, deceased), Ellenor Richardson, Harriet Huntington (Mistress Bayard Carter).