Biographical sketch extracted from:

Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. pp. 855-856.

LUZERNE HENRY COOK, M. D., of Bluffton, was born in Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana, December 6, 1856, a son of Henry and Eliza A. (Deaver) Cook, who were natives of Germany and Ohio respectively. The father received a liberal education in his native county and was a man of more than ordinary ability. He immigrated to America when a young man, and after living in various places in Ohio and Indiana came to Bluffton, Wells County, in 1850. He was then employed in the store of John Studabaker, of Bluffton, for several years, when he engaged in the hardware business at Bluffton, which he carried on for seventeen years, after which he was in no particular business, but was employed as bookkeper at times until his death, which occurred at Bluffton in 1879, at the age of sixty-three years. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. In his religious views he was a Lutheran. The mother of our subject came to Bluffton with her parents when quite young, and was married here to Mr. Cook in 1852. She still survives her husband, and is making her home with her children at Bluffton. She is a member of the Bluffton Methodist Episcopal church. L. H. Cook, the subject of this sketch, was reared to manhood in Bluffton and attended the public school until he was eighteen years of age. After leaving school he was employed for three years at Bluffton as assistant freight agent for the Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cincinnati Railroad Company. He was engaged in the grocery business at Bluffton from 1877 until 1880, when he began the study of medicine under Dr. C. T. Melsheimer. He subsequently attended three regular courses at the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, and graduated from that institution with the degree of M. D., in the class of 1885, receiving the third honor in a class of seventy-five students. In March, 1885, he began practicing medicine at Bluffton, and has met with unusual success, and bids fair to rank among the leading physicians of his county. Dr. Cook was married at Bluffton, April 15, 1886, to Miss Clara Belle Lacy, who was a daughter of Rev. H. J. and Lizzie Lacy, of Bluffton. She died of typhoid fever July 30, 1886. She was a lady of many accomplishments, and esteemed by all who knew her. She was educated at the high school at Portland, Indiana, and was a graduate of the Fort Wayne Musical Conservatory. She was a member of the Bluffton Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. Cook is a member of the same church. He is a member of Bluffton Lodge, No. 145, A. F. & A. M.