Cooper, W. A.

COOPER, MCPHERSON, STUART

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Date: 2/17/2003 at 02:15:24

PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF CLINTON COUNTY, IOWA 1886 (CHAPMAN BROS.)  Containing full page portraits & biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county. (Also available on FHL film 1036331 Item 9)
W. A. COOPER
W. A. Cooper, Foreman of the Car Department of the C. & N. W. R. R. at Clinton, is a native of Scotland, having been born in Inverness-shire, Aug. 13,1842. He is the son of George and Ellen (McPherson) Cooper, and was reared in Aberdeenshire. In 1854 Mr. Cooper, Sr., came to America, locating at Amherstburg, where he spent three years. In 1857 he came to Clinton County and engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he followed up to the date of his death, in 1884. He left a family of eight sons and five daughters, of whom six of the former and three of the latter survive.
Our subject learned carpentering and building to follow as a trade and has conducted his business at which he specially ingenious and successful, throughout much of the West. In 1875 he accepted a position in the shops, which he successfully and acceptably filled up to the date of his present appointment, in 1881.
Mr. Cooper was married in Clinton County to Jane, daughter of Alex Stuart, Esq., and by this union they have two sons and five daughters living, and two sons deceased. Both our subject and his wife are members of Saint Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, and Mr. Cooper is one of the Catholic Mutual Protective Association of Iowa, besides belonging to the Perpetual Building Association of Clinton.