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Edith Wilkinson Cook (d. 1902), was a painter

Early life
Hoboken, New Jersey

wealthy family

Shared interests in botany and hiking - Remember the Ladies p28

hiking and climbing in the White Mountains with her older brother Eugene, her sister Lucia (who married John Pychowska) and Lucia's daughter Marian

index of Appalachia: The Journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, vols 1-10 (1876-1904) lists her several times: vol ii published her notes on a visit to Copper Mine Brook p 192, p 197,and "A Reconnaisance on the Carter Range," pp 299-314,

(see https://books.google.com/books?id=1ElIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=%22edith+w.+cook%22+%22ledge%22&source=bl&ots=9oN5e_eDLv&sig=ACfU3U2yA0bt8JvLNR9KMofOOb68j62hnA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwirlamGk9b2AhUrkIkEHYxdBmIQ6AF6BAgDEAM#v=onepage&q=cook&f=false pages 90, 219 (making paths in vicinity of Randolph); and 379.

"leading member" of the Appalachian Mountain Club with her close friend and fellow painter, Susie M. Barstow - Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School page 28

Her friend painter Sanford Gifford acquired her painting, Autumn Landscape with Figures (1871) - Remember the Ladies p28 ; Judith Hansen O'Toole, Different Views in Hudson River School Painting (NY:Columbia University Press, 2005), p 125.

died age 63 per Julie Boardman When Women and Mountains Meet: Adventures in the White Mountains (Etna, N.H.: Durand Press, 2001) Minuteman Library Network