Zook, Daniel

Male 1831 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Zook, Daniel 
    Born Sep 1831  Wayne County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Occupation Holt County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    lawyer 
    • He was admitted to the bar in Holt County in 1848. He was prosecuting attorney of the county from 1863-1864. He was in private practice for a brief time in Forest City, Missouri, but mostly in Oregon, Missouri.
    Moved To 1842  Lewis Township, Holt County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I7521  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 1 Jan 2013 

    Father Zook, Daniel,   b. Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1842, Oregon, Holt County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Forney, Anna,   b. Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F2420  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Dozier, Cordelia,   d. Aug 1874, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1852  Holt County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • Seven children were born to the marriage, but according to a biographical sketch of Daniel published in 1882, only two of the children were still alive.
    Children 
     1. Lee, Willie,   b. Abt 1859–1860, Holt County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Zook, Daniel Roy,   b. Abt 1874–1875, Holt County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2421  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Henning, Annie B.,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 1877  Holt County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • Daniel and Annie did not have any children.
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2422  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), pages 417-418; biographical sketch of Levi Zook.
      Levi Zook, son of Daniel Zook and Annie Forney (both natives of Pennsylvania), was born on 10 May 1831 in Marion County, Ohio.

    2. [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 487; biographical sketch of Daniel Zook.
      Daniel Zook, the son of Daniel Zook and Anna Forney (natives of Lancaster, Pennsylvania), was born in September 1831 in Wayne County, Ohio.

    3. [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 487; biographical sketch of Daniel Zook.
      "Mr. Zook obtained his education, partly in the common schools, but the greater part of it through a private instructor, the Rev. Mr. Raney, a Presbyterian minister at Oregon, a man of scholarly attainments. He commenced the study of the law in 1846, with Colonel John W. Kelly and James Foster, the two members who then composed the Holt County bar, and was admitted to the practice at Oregon, in 1848.
           "He resided in Oregon till the fall of 1857, when he removed to Forest City, where he resided till the fall of 1863, when he returned to Oregon, where he has since lived."
           "During the years of 1863-64, he served as prosecuting attorney of Holt County. In 1865 he formed a law partnership with E. VanBuskirk [sic], which continued till the spring of 1874, when he became the partner of Thomas H. Parrish. This partnership was dissolved after some two or three years, since which time Mr. Zook has been alone in the practice."

    4. [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 487; biographical sketch of Daniel Zook.
      Daniel Zook "in the spring of 1842, came to Holt County, Missouri, and located three miles south of Oregon, in East Lewis Township."

    5. [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 487; biographical sketch of Daniel Zook.
      "He was married in 1852, to Cordelia Dozier, of Holt County.... By this union they had seven children. All are dead except Willie Lee and Daniel Roy, the former now nearly twenty-two years of age, and the latter seven."

    6. [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 487; biographical sketch of Daniel Zook.
      "Mr. Zook was again married in 1877, to Miss Annie B. Henning. No children by this marriage."