University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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WILLIAM COOK William Wilson Cook, a ninth generation descendant of the famous William Bradford, governor of the Plymouth colony, was born in Hillsdale, Michigan on April 16, 1858. He entered the University of Michigan in 1876, grad- uated in 1880, and graduated from Law School in 1882. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1883 and rapidly became one of its most respected members. He retired from practice in 1921 and died June4, 1930 at Port Chester, New York. Not only was he the University's greatestprivate bene- factor, but he was also a prolific writer. His best known work is Cook on Corporations, which has had over eight editions. In 1924, he published Principles of Corporation Law for the benefit of law students. Indicative of his wide range of interests were two other books, Power and Re- gponsibility of the American Bar and American Institutions and Their Preservation. His gifts to the University during his lifetime and under his will total nearly P616,000,000. His most widely known gift, of course, is the Law Quadrangle, but he also donated the Martha Cook dormitory for women, which was named in honor of his mother. Ofhis other benefactions, perhaps the most outstanding was the establishment of a trust fund of S200,000 to found a chair in American Institutions at the University. He was, and is, a man to whom we are all deeply indebted. BUILDINGS AND WILL Mr. Cook first evidenced an interest in contributingto the Law School in 1908 when he informed Dean Hutchins that he had provided in his will a fund for the salary of a professor of corporation law. Twelve years of corres- pondence followed between Dean Bates, President Hutchins, and Mr. Cook, culminating in the presentation to Mr. Cook of a plan to erect a Law School building and a dormitory. Dean Bates was summoned to New York by Mr. Cook, and, after three days of discussion, they agreed to afour- building complex, the plans of which became a part of Mr. Cook's subsequent will. By 1922, Mr. Cook hadwisely developedadeep convic- tion that the strength of a law school lies in its research facilities, and, upon the erection of the Lawyers Club in 1925, he stipulated that all dues andprofits from the opera- tion of the building were to be used exclusively for legal research work. ln a letter to the Board of Regents in 1929, he offered to erect the Legal Research Building: a few months later, he wrote of his plans to build the dormi- tory which now stands on the East side of the Law Quadran- gle. The construction costs of each of the original four buildings was as follows: Lawyers Club, 5B1,144,086g John P. Cook Building, 855017693 Legal Research Building, S1,600,830g and Hut- chins Hall, S1,191,074. Final value, including equipment and books, as of 1956 was S8,643,370. By his will, he established a trust and directed that the net income be devoted. . .to aiding and developing the Law School of the University of Michigan. Specifi- cally he provided for the completion of the initial four buildings, for the construction of any others deemed necessary, for the establishment of a department to or- ganize the branches of law into an intelligable form, to prepare legal articles, to pay salaries of research pro- fessors and assistant, to pay the expenses of the Re- search Department, to purchase books for the Law Li- brary, to engage eminent jurists and lawyers to deliver lectures at Ann Arbor, to increase salaries of Law pro- fessors, to establish new law professorships and fellow- ships, and to aid the Law School in any way possible in order to produce superior lawyers, judges, legislators, and executives. A truly magnificent giftg it is somehow tragic that he never lived to see the functioningbeauty he had created.

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