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Robert Cooke, M.D., was born in Emory, Texas, the youngest son of William and Nancy Cooke. He attended Waco College, now Baylor University, and medical school in Kentucky, where he received his degree in 1886. He began his practice in Kentuckytown and moved to the Winters area in 1889, where he became the town’s first doctor, a deacon in the first church, and later a pastor. He married Sallie Mitchell in 1886, and they had five children. He was beloved as both a physician and a Baptist preacher.
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Winters, Texas · United States
