From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
Publ. 1912 - Page 879-880
 
ALBERT J. NOKES.  The climate, soil and general conditions prevalent in 
southeastern Wisconsin are well adapted to the general conditions of farming 
and stock raising  One of the men who has shown by his success that he is a 
master of the art of farming in Troy township, Walworth county, is Albert J. 
NOKES, who was born in Jefferson county, Wisconsin, September 12, 1869.  He is 
the son of Charles E. and Julia (CONDON) NOKES.  Joseph NOKES and wife, the 
paternal grandparents, were early settlers in Jefferson county and there the 
mother of the subject was born and reared.  The maternal grandparents, Isaac 
CONDON and wife, also early settlers in Jefferson county and there they spent 
the rest of their lives.  In that county the father of Albert J. NOKES was 
reared and educated.  He was a mason by trade, and he is now living in South 
Dakota, where he owns one hundred and sixty acres.  Politically, he is a 
Republican and he belongs to the Methodist church.  His family consisted of 
ten children, of whom eight are living.  Albert J. NOKES spent his childhood 
at the town of Palmyra, Wisconsin, and attended school there.  He went to 
South Dakota when fourteen years old, and when nineteen years of age he 
returned to Palmyra, Wisconsin, where he attended graded school, and took a 
special course in dairying at the University of Wisconsin.  Then for several 
years he followed butter making, turning his attention to general faring in 
1900.  He bought the fine farm he now owns in 1904.  In consists of one 
hundred and eighty-six acres, and is known as the "Maple Street Stock Farm."  
He has placed it under a fine state of improvement and cultivation, paying 
special attention to stock raising, keeping large numbers of Guernsey cattle 
and Duroc-Jersey hogs.  He has been very successful and has one of the choice 
farms of the township.  He has erected the buildings, and his father-in-law 
set out the trees about the place.
 
Politically Mr. NOKES is a Prohibitionist, and he belongs to the Methodist 
church.  On April 20, 1892, he was united in marriage with Maud E. COOK, a 
native of Troy township, this county, born here on the farm they now own, on 
April 3, 1870.  She is the daughter of Henry Smith COOK and Catherine Young 
(MORRISON) COOK, the father a native of Florence, Oneida county, New York, 
born there in 1829, and she was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1840.  Mr. 
COOK came to Walworth county, Wisconsin, in 1856, while Katherine MORRISON 
came in an early day and here they were married in 1861 and settled in Troy 
township on the hundred and eighty-six acres that they now own.  He went to 
Palmyra, Jefferson county in 1882 and there he died in 1899; Mrs. COOK's death 
occurred in 1900.  They were the parents of five children, three of whom are 
living.  In politics he was a Republican and a member of the Congregational 
church, and for a number of years he was a deacon in the same.
 
To Mr. and Mrs. NOKES the following children have been born: Douglas A., 
deceased; Kenneth Lyle, Katherine Morrison, Thelma Maud, Albert Colon, Valeria 
and Marguerite, deceased.
 
Submitted by Carol