Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Massachusetts: Biographical Genealogical Oi the best type of the English people with whom we have so close a bond, is Richard Hartley Cook, the distinguished gentleman whose name heads this sketch. And who came to this country in his young manhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.