New-York Daily Tribune January 1, 1851
Son of John R. and Maria Pendleton Cooke. Graduate of Princeton University. Author of "Florence Vane" and published early on in the Southern Literary Messenger, edited by Edgar Allen Poe. Married Willianne Corbin Tayloe Burwell, daughter of William Burwell. This marriage brought to him the "Vineyard" estate. Died of pneumonia after riding through the Shenandoah on a hunting excursion.
New-York Daily Tribune January 1, 1851
Son of John R. and Maria Pendleton Cooke. Graduate of Princeton University. Author of "Florence Vane" and published early on in the Southern Literary Messenger, edited by Edgar Allen Poe. Married Willianne Corbin Tayloe Burwell, daughter of William Burwell. This marriage brought to him the "Vineyard" estate. Died of pneumonia after riding through the Shenandoah on a hunting excursion.
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