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Mccook, Henry Christopher was born on July 3, 1837 in New Lisbon, Ohio, United States. Son of Doctor John and Catharine Julia (Sheldon) M.
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Mccook, Henry Christopher was born on July 3, 1837 in New Lisbon, Ohio, United States. Son of Doctor John and Catharine Julia (Sheldon) M.
Brother of Edward Moody, Anson George, John James M. Bachelor of Arts, Jefferson (now Washington and Jefferson) College, 1859. Western Theological Seminary, 1860-1863.
(Doctor of Divinity, 1880, Doctor of Science., 1888, Lafayette College. Doctor of Laws, Washington and Jefferson, 1902).
He learned the printing trade as a youth, then taught school for several years. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the 41st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a chaplain with the rank of first lieutenant, and helped tend the wounded. As a minister in Clinton, Illinois, Saint Louis, and Steubenville, Ohio, McCook became known for his compassion and intellect, and for his leadership in the movement to create Sunday Schools.
He spent his summers studying the behavior of ants and spiders.
He published his observations and discoveries in a number of journals and books, as well as in a series of well-received illustrated children"s books that explained the insects characteristics and traits in language and drawings for young minds. Many of McCook"s books used illustrations drawn by Daniel Carter Beard, the founder of the Boy Scouts of America.
In the summer of 1877, he travelled to Texas to study agricultural ants. Two years later, McCook wrote The Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas.
In 1889-1893, he published his most ambitious work, American Spiders and Their Spinning Work, in three illustrated volumes.
He also wrote a book on his ancestors in the Whiskey Rebellion, and delivered a number of papers on Civil War history at meetings of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States veterans organization. McCook was Vice President of both the American Entomological Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1880, Lafayette College conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity to McCook.
In 1895, he designed the official flag of the city of Philadelphia.
He again served as an Army Chaplain during the Spanish–American War in 1898. Object and Outline Teaching (1871).
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He was a member of the celebrated Fighting McCooks, a family of Ohio military officers and volunteers during the American Civil War. He was a member of the Franklin Literary Society and founded the chapter of Theta Delta Chi at Jefferson College.
Married Emma C. Herter, September 11, 1860 (died 1897). Married second, Mistress.