James Henry Rook was a banker, prohibitionist, and local politician who spent much of his life in Angelica New York. James Rook was born in Bowen, Hancock County, Illinois. He was the son of Stephen G Rook and Mary Jane McCoy Rook. He was the oldest of six children. Shortly after being born, his family moved to Harmony, Illinois, where he grew up. His father had worked as a farmer. James Rook had worked as a farmer in his early twenties.
James Rook married his first wife, Mary Elizabeth McNeal, on March 22, 1883. They had one son, Charles Roy Rook, who was born on August 19, 1884. His first wife died in 1885. Subsequently, James Rook moved to Angelica, New York sometime in the late 1880s.
In Angelica, James Rook joined a group of businessmen to create the State Bank of Angelica. The town of Angelica had been without a bank following the closure of the First National Bank of Angelica in 1886. In 1889, a group of men including James Rook began organizing a new bank. The bank was opened on March 15th , 1889, with G.C. Hardesty as president and James Rook as the bank’s cashier, as well as a member of the bank’s board of directors. The bank gained formal recognition as a state bank on January 1st , 1890.
Rook would go on to have a long career as the bank’s cashier and member of its board of directors. The State Bank of Angelica reportedly did fairly well under the leadership of Rook and his associates. The bank grew significantly in the decades following its creation. By 1904, the bank was reported to have been a “popular and well-managed institution” that “enjoys a wide patronage from the businessmen and farmers of that section”. Reports from the early 1900’s described the bank as extending every courtesy to customers consistent with sound banking, having sound investment practices, having ample space for businesses transactions, and sound protections against fire and robbery. By 1910, the bank was reported to have grown from its initial investment of $25,000 into an institution with $175,000 in deposits, $225,000 in assets, and had generated over $20,000 in profits. And a report from 1921, described the bank as being in excellent condition, flourishing, and one of the best banks in its part of the country.
A 1904 article in the Elmira Star-Gazette described James Rook and J.H. Rutherford (bank president from 1891-1906) as "experienced financiers and give their personal attention to the management”. A 1908 article from the same newspaper stated that "Mr. Rook is an able bank manager and his colleagues represent the most substantial gentlemen in the community". Overall, the Bank of Angelica had grown significantly in its early decades under the leadership of Rook and his colleagues, and the bank, Rook, and his colleagues had attained a positive reputation in the region.
In January 1892, James Rook was involved with organizing the creation of a new bank in Corry, Pennsylvania. The National Bank of Corry was organized inOctober of that year and opened for business in December. The bank operated in Corry for several decades, until was absorbed in a merger in 1988 and became part of the First National Bank of Pennsylvania.
James Rook was an active member of the community in Angelica. In 1890, he was selected to be the head of the Angelica branch of the Royal Templars of Temperance. The Royal Templars were a fraternal temperance organization, created in Buffalo, New York, which admitted both men and women as equal members, and whose work included promoting temperance, engaging charitable work, and proving benefits to a member or their family following the death or disability of a member.
In 1893, he was one of the vice-presidents of the local branch of the Epworth League (a Methodist young adults organization) at Angelica’s Methodist Episcopal Church. A Council of the Empire Knights of Relief (a fraternal charitable and mutual aid organization) was organized in Angelica in 1894, and. Rook was selected as its treasurer. In 1897, Rook was a participant in a local baseball game, in which a team of Angelica businessmen (including Rook), played against a team of Angelica professional workers, to raise money for Angelica’s fire company. The businessmen team won the game 54 to 32 and the event raised over $60 for Angelica’s fire company. Overall, Rook was involved in a variety of community activities, which included temperance, religious, and charitable work.
Rook continued his work at the bank in the early 1900s, continued to be involved in the community, and pursued business activities. His work at the bank reportedly went well. He was involved with state banking organizations, such as the New York State Bankers’ Association.
In 1905, his life was somewhat disrupted when a small blood vessel in his eye burst, causing his eye to turn red. Though he recovered without any impairment to his vision.
Rook also played the role of acting as a notary public for the community. Rook was included in the list of staterecognized notary publics for Allegany County as early as 1903. In 1909, James Rook and a group of local businessmen purchased the former Angelica High School building, in order to use the building for a glove manufacturing business.
James Rook was a member of the Prohibition Party and was involved with party and local politics in the 1910s. In 1912, James Rook the Allegany County Prohibition Party selected him as county committeemen, representing the county in the state Prohibition Party organization. In the same year, Rook ran for Village Treasurer in Angelica. He had received the nominations of both the Democratic and Republican parties in the village, and was unanimously elected.
In 1914, the Allegany County Prohibition Party nominated Rook as its candidate for county treasurer. He ran against incumbent Republican candidate D. Sherman Burdick of Alfred, Democratic candidate James D. Parker of Willing, Progressive candidate Edwin E. Stone of Wellsville, and Socialist candidate R.A. Loop of Bolivar. Rook received 646 votes (8.54%), and came in 4th place to Burdick, Parker, and Stone. Rook had a strong performance in various towns: coming in second place in 7 towns (Allen, Bolivar, Caneadea, Genesee, Rushford, Wirt, and West Almond), outperforming the Democratic candidate in the towns of Alfred and Centerville, and coming in 3rd place in various other towns. Overall, Rook had performed decently for a candidate in his context.
Rook married his second wife, Charlotte C. Osgood, in 1920, and they would remain together for the rest of his life. He continued to be involved in his community. In 1923, he was part of a group of prominent figures in the county who publicly endorsed a big fundraising campaign by the Allegany County YMCA. In 1927, Rook had suffered a nervous breakdown and spent some time recovering. Other health problems led him to retire from his position as cashier at the State Bank of Angelica, thus ending his 39-year career in banking.
James H. Rook died on March 5, 1936. He was buried in the Until Day Dawn Cemetery in Angelica, New York. Throughout his life, he had been a banker, a businessman, a temperance advocate, an involved member of his community, and local Prohibition Party politician.
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-- Contributed by Jonathan Makeley
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