1891 Biography - Z. T. Cook

Z. T. COOK, BERWICK. – Z. T. Cook was born in Louisiana, March 24, 1848. He is the son of William H. and Marcelite (Hayes) Cook, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Louisiana.

Z. T. Cook was reared in St. Mary parish, where, at the age of six years, he entered a private school, attending until he had reached the age of ten years, after which time he engaged in farming, which he has continued up to the present time. He was married in 1873 to Mrs. Aleda Salvo, a native of Louisiana, and daughter of A. J. Stansbury and Florence Boudreau, both natives of this State. To this union eight children have been born, viz: Alden Andrew, Allen, Horace, Allison, Alonzo, Albert (deceased), Alfred and Z. T., the subject of this sketch. Mr. Cook operates the Glenwild plantation, which is located on the Teche, about six miles below Pattersonville, in St. Mary parish. It consists of six hundred acres, all of which are under cultivation, principally in cane and corn. The capacity of the mill is very great, one of the vacuum pans having a capacity for fifteen thousand pounds of sugar in six hours, and the other twelve thousand pounds in the same time. In 1890 they grew fifteen thousand tons of sugar cane, and three hundred thousand pounds of sugar.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, pages 364-365.