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Show 00 FAMOUS VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR DIES NEW YORK, Dec. 30. Brigadier General Anson George McCook, president pres-ident of the New York Law Publishing Publish-ing company and a veteran of the civil war, died at his homo here today from pleurisy. In 1854 ho drove cattle to California and was a gold prospector there for fivo years. He organized a volunteer company in tho civil war that. became part of the Second Ohio infantry, saw action in several historic battles and retired in 1865, brigadier general of volunteers. volun-teers. General McCook represented the Eighth New York district in congress from 1S7S to 1833. |