Anson George McCook was born on October 10, 1835 in Steubenville, Ohio. He was a first cousin of Alexander McDowell McCook and the second son of Dr. John McCook, a native of Canonsburg, Pa. , and of Catharine Julia (Sheldon) of Hartford, Connecticut He was brought up in the town of Lisbon (then New Lisbon), Ohio.
McCook attended local public schools. At the age of fifteen he left school and went to Pittsburgh where he was employed in a drugstore.
After two years in Pittsburgh, McCook taught school at a little crossroads town near Lisbon and worked as transit man on a local railway. When news of the discovery of gold in California reached the Middle West, he went overland to the coast with a party taking cattle across the plains. For the next five years, he lived as a miner and businessman in California and Nevada. Upon his return to Ohio in 1859, he read law in the office of his cousin, George W. McCook of Steubenville, law partner of Edwin M. Stanton. The following year, he was admitted to the bar. McCook belonged to the famous "fighting McCooks" of Ohio. He, with his father and four brothers, was at that time a War Democrat, and upon the outbreak of the Civil War the five sons, among whom were Edward M. , Henry C. , and John James McCook, entered the military or naval service of the United States. Anson George organized a company of infantry at Steubenville and on April 17, 1861, was commissioned captain in the 2nd Ohio Volunteers. He rose successively through the grades of major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the same regiment, and when it was mustered out he became colonel of the 194th Ohio Volunteers.
In March 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers "for meritorious services. " During the war, he took part in many engagements, including the battles of Bull Run, Perryville, Stone River, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, and Atlanta. He was also in the Shenandoah campaign which preceded the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. Upon his honorable discharge at the close of the war he returned to Steubenville, where from 1866 to 1872, he was assessor of internal revenue. In 1873 he moved to New York and was admitted to practice in the courts of that state. Political honors soon came to him in his new domicile, and in 1876, 1878, and 1880 he was elected to the national House of Representatives from the eighth congressional district of New York. His congressional record was creditable but not outstanding. In 1884 he was chosen secretary of the United States Senate, a position which he retained until August 1893. Two years later he was appointed chamberlain of the City of New York by Mayor William L. Strong and served until the expiration of the latter's term of office in 1897. When he removed from Ohio to New York, McCook became interested in the Daily Register (later the New York Law Journal) and was for many years its editor.
member of the “Fighting McCooks”
In May 1886, McCook married Hettie B. McCook, a daughter of his cousin and law preceptor. A son and a daughter were born to them.
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