Simon S. Cook
Ontario MPP
In office
1867–1874
Preceded byRiding established
Succeeded byAndrew Broder
ConstituencyDundas
Personal details
Born(1831-09-15)September 15, 1831
Williamsburgh, Dundas County, Upper Canada
DiedMay 15, 1892(1892-05-15) (aged 60)
Merchant
Political partyLiberal
RelationsJames William, brother
Hermon Henry, brother

Simon Sephrenus Cook (September 15, 1831 – May 15, 1892) represented Dundas in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1867 to 1874.

He was born in Williamsburgh in Dundas County in Upper Canada in 1831 and educated at the Potsdam Academy in Potsdam, New York. He lived in Morrisburg and was involved in the timber trade. In 1881, he was appointed registrar for the county. His brother James William represented Dundas in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and his brother Hermon Henry served in both the federal and provincial legislatures.

  • Simon S. Cook – Ontario Legislative Assembly parliamentary history (archive)
  • Carter, J. Smyth (1905). The Story of Dundas: being a History of the County of Dundas from 1784 to 1904. Iroquois, Ontario: The St. Lawrence News Publishing House. p. 218.
  • Rose, Geo. Maclean, ed. (1886). A Cyclopæedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time. Toronto: Rose Publishing Co. p. 661.


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