Charles Montague Cooke Jr.

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|spouse = Eliza Lefferts

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Charles Montague Cooke Jr. (December 20, 1874 – October 29, 1948) was an American malacologist who published under the name of C. Montague Cooke or C.M. Cooke.

Life

Charles Montague Cooke Jr. was born in Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawai'i on December 20, 1874.{{cite book |title= Men of Hawaii: being a biographical reference library, complete and authentic, of the men of note and substantial achievement in the Hawaiian Islands |publisher= Honolulu Star-Bulletin |year=1921 |editor=John William Siddall |page= [https://archive.org/details/menhawaiibeinga01siddgoog/page/n120 107] |url= https://archive.org/details/menhawaiibeinga01siddgoog }}

He was from a wealthy family descended from two early missionaries to Hawaii. His mother was Anna Rice Cooke (1853–1934), a patron of the arts in Honolulu and founder of the Honolulu Museum of Art. His father was Charles Montague Cooke (1849–1909), co-founder of the Bank of Hawaii and benefactor of educational institutions such as Kamehameha Schools, Punahou School, and the Waikiki Aquarium.{{cite web |url=http://www.ksbe.edu/pauahi/trustees.php |access-date=2009-04-10 |title=Kamehameha Schools: First Trustees Appointed to Care for the Princess's Trust |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527101143/http://www.ksbe.edu/pauahi/trustees.php |archive-date=2010-05-27 |url-status=dead }} His grandfather Amos Starr Cooke (1810–1871) founded Castle & Cooke.

Cooke graduated from Punahou School in 1893, and Yale University, with a Bachelor of Arts in 1897 and a Ph.D. in 1901.

He married Eliza Lefferts (1880–1970) from Flatbush, New York on April 25, 1901.

They traveled through Europe before returning to Hawaii.

They built a grand estate in Manoa Valley, the Charles Montague Cooke Jr. House, also known as Kuali{{okina}}i, which is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places listings in Oahu.{{cite web |title= Charles Montague Cooke Jr. Residence nomination form |author= Sam Cooke |work= National Register of Historic Places |date= September 1984 |publisher= U.S. National Park Service |url= {{NRHP url|id=85003402}} |access-date= May 6, 2010 }}

They had two children: Carolene Alexander Cooke (1905–1987) and Charles Montague Cooke III (1907–1952).{{cite web |title= Family forest for Thomas Emerson |date= October 2008 |url= http://familyforest.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/family-forest-outline-report-for-thomas-emerson.pdf |access-date= May 6, 2010 }}

Unlike his father and younger brothers such as Clarence Hyde Cooke who became financiers, his interests were in the field of malacology, the study of molluscs.

His cousin Annie Montague Alexander (1867–1950) also became a scientist.

From 1902 he was a curator of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum collection of Pulmonata (snails) in Honolulu.

In 1905 he bought the extensive collection of shells from early evolution scientist John Thomas Gulick.{{cite book|author=Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum|title=Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HBoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA174|year=1922|publisher=Bishop Museum Press|page=174}}

Cooke led the museum's Mangarevan Expedition in 1934. He worked with Henry Augustus Pilsbry to identify species of snails in the Hawaiian Islands.{{cite book |title= Natural history of Hawaii: being an account of the Hawaiian people, the geology and geography of the islands, and the native and introduced plants and animals of the group |author= William Alanson Bryan |publisher= Hawaiian gazette co., ltd. |year= 1915 |page= [https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryh01bryagoog/page/n439 435]|url= https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryh01bryagoog }} He took several expeditions with Kenneth Emory through the South Pacific.{{cite news |title= Lush & Legendary: The Manoa Heritage Center preserve includes the famous Kukaoo heiau |author= Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi |date= December 21, 2008 |newspaper= Honolulu Star-Bulletin |url= http://www.starbulletin.com/travel/hawaiisbackyard/20081221_hawaiis_back_yard.html |access-date= May 6, 2010 }}

He directed the Cooke Foundation (created by his parents) from 1920 to 1948.

From November 13, 1909, to April 30, 1914, he was on the board of regents of the University of Hawaii (then known as the College of Hawaii). From February 4, 1911, to July 1, 1913, he was on the Honolulu Parks Commission, and from July 1919 to June 1920 the Fish and Game Commission.{{cite web |url= http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASH5f3c/54d9c461.dir/Cooke,%20Charles%20Montague.jpg |title= Cooke, Charles Montague office record |work= state archives digital collections |publisher= state of Hawaii |access-date= May 6, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120320234818/http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASH5f3c/54d9c461.dir/Cooke,%20Charles%20Montague.jpg |archive-date= March 20, 2012 |url-status= dead }} (combined with those of his father)

The University of Hawaii granted him an honorary doctorate in 1936.{{cite news| title= Obituary: C. Montague Cooke Jr. 1874–1948 |author= William James Clench |work= Journal of Molluscan Studies |publisher= Oxford Journals |page= 8 |date= June 1949 |volume=28 |number= 1 |url= http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/28/1/8-a |archive-url= https://archive.today/20120721150132/http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/28/1/8-a |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2012-07-21 |access-date= May 7, 2010 }}

A street near the museum was named Monte Cooke Place for him, at {{coord| 21|19|57|N| 157|52|1|W| type:landmark_region:US-HI| display=inline| name= Monte Cooke Place }}.{{cite book |title= Place Names of Hawaii |author= Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert, Esther T. Mookini |publisher= University of Hawaii Press |year=1976 |isbn=978-0-8248-0524-1 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=fkw4JooFxZAC&pg=PA157 |page=157 }}

He died October 29, 1948, and was buried at the Mission Houses Cemetery near Kawaiahaʻo Church.{{cite web |title= Mission Houses Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii |work= US Genweb archives |author= William Disbro |date= November 6, 2001 |url = http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/honolulu/cemeteries/mission.txt |access-date=May 6, 2010 }}

His assistant Yoshio Kondō became the new curator at the Bishop Museum.

Works

{{cite news |title= The Hawaiian hepaticae of the tribe Tirgonanthae |author= Charles Montague Cooke Jr. |work= Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences |volume=12 |year= 1902 |pages= 1–44}} Ph.D. dissertation
Alpheus Hyatt and Henry Augustus Pilsbry. 1911. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. [https://archive.org/details/manualofconcholo21tryorich Volume 21]. Achatinellidae (Amastrinae). Leptachatina by C. Montague Cooke. (The volume was published after Hyatt's death in 1902.) (Amastridae is now considered to be a sole family.)
1912–1914. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. [https://archive.org/details/manualofconcholo22tryorich Volume 22]. Achatinellidae by Henry A. Pilsbry assisted by C. Montague Cooke. Genealogy and migrations of the Achatinellidae by Alpheus Hyatt.
Henry A. Pilsbry & C. Montague Cooke. 1915–1916. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. [https://archive.org/details/manualofconcholo23tryorich Volume 23]. Appendix to Amastridae. Tornatellinidae. Index, vols. XXI–XXIII.
H. A. Pilsbry & Cooke C. M. 1918–1920 Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. [https://archive.org/details/manualofconcholo25tryorich Volume 25]. Pupillidae (Gastrocoptinae, Vertigininae). Philadelphia.
C. M. Cooke & Henry Edward Crampton (1930) "New species of Partula". B. P. Bishop. Mus. Occ. Papers 9: 3–5.

Family tree

References

External links

{{cite web |title= Bishop Museum Occasional Papers |publisher= Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum |url= http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/bmop.html |access-date=May 7, 2010 }}

Category:1874 births

Category:1948 deaths

Category:American Eugenics Society members

Category:American malacologists

Category:Scientists from Honolulu

Category:Punahou School alumni