Jesse Brown Cook was a San Francisco police officer, chief and a police commissioner.
Jesse Brown Cook (1860-1938) began his career in the
San Francisco Police Department as a beat officer, and later served as a sergeant of the "Chinatown Squad." He served as Chief of Police after the 1906 earthquake, retired, and was later appointed to the Police Commission.
His police career began in
San Antonio, Texas
("Cradle of Freedom")
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, and was a police officer in San Diego before he returned to San Francisco.
Cook collected extensive photographs, clippings and ephemera relating to the police department, San Francisco and the surrounding area, now in the
Bancroft Library.
Cook described
San Francisco's Chinatown
The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, () is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia. It is also the oldest and largest of the four notable ...
in the ''San Francisco Police and Peace Officers' Journal'' issue of June 1931.
External links
Brief History of San Franciscos Chinatown — 1931at www.sfmuseum.net San Francisco Museum
Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks Documenting San Francisco History and Law Enforcement, ca. 1895-1936at content.cdlib.org Online Archive of California
1860 births
1938 deaths
San Francisco Police Department chiefs
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