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Cocke Building, Hollins University
Cocke is a surname (pronounced ''cock'', ''cox'' or ''coke'') and may refer to: * (born 1940), Professor of Physics at Kansas State University, winner of 2006 Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics *Erle Cocke Jr. (1921-2000), International banking consultant and lobbyist *James Cocke, mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia in the eighteenth century *James Richard Cocke (1863–1900), American physician, homeopath, and a pioneer hypnotherapist *John Cocke (computer scientist), John Cocke (1925–2002), American computer scientist *John Alexander Cocke (1772–1854), American politician who represented Tennessee *John Hartwell Cocke (1780–1866), American planter and brigadier general in the War of 1812 *Martha Louisa Cocke (1855-1938), American college president *Philip St. George Cocke (1809–1861), Confederate general during the American Civil War *William Cocke (1748–1828), one of the first U.S. senators from Tennessee *W. A. Cocke (1796–1844), third mayor of Louisvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to name change, change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip St
Philip, also Phillip, is a male name derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips. The original Greek spelling includes two Ps as seen in Philippides and Philippos, which is possible due to the Greek endings following the two Ps. To end a word with such a double consonant—in Greek or in English—would, however, be incorrect. It has many diminutive (or even hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly, Phillie, Lip, and Pip. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine and Philippa. Philip in other languages * Afrikaans: Filip * Albanian: Filip * Amharic: ፊሊጶስ (Filip'os) * Arabic: فيلبس (Fīlibus), فيليبوس (Fīlībū ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coke (other)
Coke usually refers to: * Coke (fuel), a coal-based fuel * Coca-Cola, a brand of soft drink **The Coca-Cola Company * Slang term for cocaine, an illicit drug Coke may also refer to: People * Coke (surname), a list of people * Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), English barrister, judge, and politician * Edward Coke, Viscount Coke (1719–1753), British Member of Parliament * Coke Daniels, American film director, screenwriter and producer nicknamed "Coke" * Coke Escovedo (1941–1986), American percussionist nicknamed "Coke" * Coke Reed (born 1940), American mathematician * Coke R. Stevenson (1888–1975), governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947 * Coke (footballer), Spanish footballer Jorge Andújar Moreno (born 1987) * Coke La Rock (born 1955), American rapper * Coco, sometimes spelled Coke, a Karankawa tribe concentrated in Texas, United States Other uses * Cola, any soft drink similar to Coca-Cola * Generic name for a soft drink * ''Coke'' (album), a 1975 album by Coke Escovedo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooke
Cooke is a surname of English and Irish origin derived from the occupation of cook and anglicisation of various Gaelic names. Variants include Cook and McCook. Irish surname origin Cooke (rather than Cook) is the usual spelling of the surname in Ireland, where it is found throughout all four provinces. In Connacht, Cooke is the modern anglicized form of the Gaelic name Mac Dhabhóc (also called Mac Uag). In Leinster, it is mainly an occupational name, long established there. In 1465, a law was passed that impacted Gaelic surnames in several counties in Leinster, specifically, Dublin, Meath, Louth and Kildare. The law required that "every Irishman, dwelling betwixt or amongst Englishmen... shall take to him an English surname of one town, as Sutton, Chester, Trim, Skryne, Cork, Kinsale; or colour, as white, black, browne; or art or science, as smith or carpenter; or office, as cooke, butler...". In Ulster, many Cookes descend from the MacCooks (MacCuagh) of Kintyre, a branch of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cock (surname)
The surname Cock is derived from the Dutch and Flemish surname ''de Cock'', alternately found as ''de Cook'' or ''de Kok'' and can be Anglicanised as Cook, and comes from the occupation of a cook. The name Cock is also a variant spelling of Cox, which is of Old English or Welsh origin, and developed independently of the Dutch and Flemish name. Notable persons * Adam Gates (aka Bob C. Cock), composer, musician, Primus roadie and producer * Christopher Cock, auctioneer of the eighteenth century * Edward Cock, British surgeon * Geoffrey Hornblower Cock (1896–1980), British World War I flying ace * Gerald Cock, first director of BBC television * Hieronymus Cock (also Kock), Flemish Renaissance painter and engraver * Jack Cock (John Gilbert Cock), English footballer * James Cock (1833–1901), politician in South Australia, son of Robert * Martin Cock, stage name of American Head Charge singer Cameron Heacock * Matthys Cock Flemish painter * Robert Cock (1801–1871), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zitella Cocke
Zitella Cocke ( – ) was an American poet, essayist, and musician. Cocke was born in Marion, Alabama on . She was the daughter of Woodson St. George Cocke, a planter from a prominent Virginia family, and Mary Elizabeth Burton Binion Cocke, a descendant of French Huguenot refugees. Cocke primarily lived in Boston, Massachusetts. The children's journal ''The Youth's Companion'' published Cocke's poetry, which was then reprinted by other news organizations. Zitella Cocke died on 3 December 1929 in Gadsden, Alabama and was buried in Marion, Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu .... Bibliography * * Review of ''The Grasshoppers' Hop and Other Verses'' * * * References 1840 births 1929 deaths Judson College (Alabama) alumni 19th-century American wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Michael Cocke
William Michael Cocke (July 16, 1815 – February 6, 1896) was an American politician who represented Tennessee's second district in the United States House of Representatives. Biography Cocke was born in Rutledge, Tennessee on July 16, 1815. He pursued classical studies and graduated from East Tennessee College at Knoxville, Tennessee. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Rutledge and Nashville. Cocke was Clerk of Grainger County Circuit Court from 1840 to 1845. He served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. On January 15, 1835, he married his first cousin, Sarah Frances Cocke, daughter of Willis and Margaret E. Rogers Cocke. They had seven children. There were no children by his second marriage to Amanda Grigsby, nor his third to Noel. Career Cocke was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses. He served from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1849. During the Thirtieth Congress, he was chairman of the U.S. House Commit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cocke
William Cocke (1748August 22, 1828) was an American lawyer, pioneer, and statesman. He has the distinction of having served in the state legislatures of four different states: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi, and was one of the first two United States senators for Tennessee. Early life and education Cocke was born in Amelia County, Virginia in 1748. He was of English descent. He was the sixth of ten or eleven children of Abraham (c.1695–1760) and Mary (Batte) Cocke. He was educated at home before reading law, and was admitted to the bar in Virginia. He owned slaves. Political career Cocke was an elected member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. In 1776, as a colonel of militia, he led a company of men into North Carolina's Washington District for action against the Indians. Cocke suffered accusations of cowardice following his actions at the Battle of Island Flats that followed him throughout his life.Lynch, Wayne''William Cocke at the Battle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Louisa Cocke
Martha "Matty" Louisa Cocke (9 October 1855–15 August 1938) was an American educator known for being the president of Hollins College, the first woman college president in Virginia. Early life and education Cocke was born in 1855 to Charles Lewis Cocke and Susanna Virginia Pleasants Cocke, one of nine children. Her father was the superintendent of the Hollins Institute which he had founded, and the family lived on the grounds. She graduated from the collegiate department in 1874. Career Cocke's early professional career was as a secretarial assistant to her father in the superintendent's office. Two years after her graduation she was employed as an instructor of English, French, German, and mathematics. She became registrar and librarian of the school in 1884. Her father actually owned the deed to the school as a result of money owed to him by the trustees. When he died in 1901 and her eldest brother, the heir apparent, had predeceased him, the remaining heirs were left to sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hartwell Cocke
Brigadier general (United States), Brigadier-General John Hartwell Cocke II (September 19, 1780 – June 24, 1866) was an American military officer, planter and businessman. During the War of 1812, Cocke served in the Virginia militia. After his military service, he invested in the James River and Kanawha Canal and helped Thomas Jefferson establish the University of Virginia. The family estate that Cocke built at Bremo Historic District, Bremo Plantation is now a National Historic Landmark. Biography Early life and education John Hartwell Cocke II was born on September 19, 1780, at the Mount Pleasant plantation in Surry County, Virginia. With the death of his younger brother Robert Kennon Cocke, who died in 1790 at age five, John was the only surviving son of eight children born to John Hartwell Cocke I and Elizabeth Kennon Cocke. Through an entirely paternal line, Cocke was a direct descendant of English politician Henry Cocke. The elder Cocke had married Elizabeth Kennon, who g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Alexander Cocke
John Alexander Cocke (December 28, 1772February 16, 1854) was an American politician and soldier who represented Tennessee's 2nd district in the United States House of Representatives from 1819 to 1827. He also served several terms in the Tennessee Senate and the Tennessee House of Representatives, and was Speaker of the latter for two sessions (1811–1813 and 1837–1839). During the Creek War, Cocke commanded the Eastern Division of the Tennessee militia. Early life Cocke was born in Brunswick in Nottoway County in the Colony of Virginia in 1772, the eldest son of frontiersman and future senator, William Cocke, and wife Mary (Maclin) Cocke. While still a young child, he moved with his parents across the Appalachian Mountains to what is now Tennessee, where his father was active in the State of Franklin movement. The family settled in what is now Grainger County, but was then part of Hawkins County. The younger Cocke studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 179 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
