Juliette Montague Cooke

Juliette Montague Cooke (March 10, 1812 – August 11, 1896), known as "Mother Cooke", was an American teacher, a member of the Eighth Company of missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to the Hawaiian Islands.

She taught school at Ipswich, Massachusetts as a young woman, and was described as a "good tailoress and dressmaker" in one of her recommendation letters for mission work.

The wedding of Bernice Pauahi and Charles Reed Bishop took place in the Cookes' home.

Her granddaughter Mary Atherton Richards wrote a biography of the Cookes and the Chief's Children's School, first published in 1937.

[2] Juliette Montague Cooke's surviving letters and journals are still valued as a source on nineteenth-century life in Honolulu.

Juliette Montague Cooke, 1876
Juliette Montague Cooke and family, about 1874, N-0676, Mission Houses Museum Archives