Born on February 15, 1876, Frank P. Cook was the third child of Frank and Gertrude Cook. He was born in a mining town in Upper Michigan.

At the age of two, in 1878, his family came to Barnes County, and Frank was carried on the shoulder of a relative as they walked three miles west of Valley City to their new home.

When Frank was six, a school was built across the road from the homestead, and here he attended school until he was fourteen, when he attended the Model School at the Normal School in Valley City. He later attended business college in Iowa.

Upon the death of his father, he took over the operation of the family farm, then managed the Bank at Sanborn, and was employed by the Bank of Valley City.

He was married to Agnes Collins, born in 1879 in Maynooth, Ontario. She worked in a dry-goods store in Valley City. She died in March of 1942. In 1944, Frank married Anna Mae McGee, the widow of Robert McGee. She was born in Minnesota in 1891.

Frank and Agnes Cook had one daughter, Rosemond, born in 1909. She has her A.B. Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Library Science Degree from Columbia University. She has pursued her career in two colleges in New York State, Mexico City, Patzcuaro, Mexico, and has spent twenty years as Cataloger for the Library of San Diego, California, County Department of Education.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 50