Paul Augustin Cooper-Gilmore1899-1916

COOPER, GILMORE

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 2/27/2019 at 14:41:40

Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa, Sunday, April 2, 1916

PROMISING CAREER OF POPULAR YOUTH
CUT SHORT BY RAIL ACCIDENT
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FUNERAL ON MONDAY MORNING
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Friends of Family Will Be permitted to View
Remains Sunday Morning and Afternoon
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Paul Augustin Cooper, who was injured by jumping from an Illinois Passenger train at 9:30 Friday night, died at 11 o’clock Saturday morning.

His injuries regarded by the physicians as fatal from the very start. He continued in an unconscious condition from the time he was picked up on the side of the railroad tracks until his death.

His right hand was crushed by the wheels of the train, but his most serious injuries were to the head and chest, injuries probably sustained by the fall or by being struck by projections.

The young man whose trip to Galena early Friday evening resulted in Cooper making the trip later and who accompanied him back to Dubuque, who were on the car when he attempted to alight and who saw him fall and go to almost certain death, are broken-hearted over the affair as he was popular with all young men of his age.

Paul Cooper was born Sept. 9, 1893 in Dubuque and was survived by three days by his mother, Regina Cooper Gilmore, besides whose grave he will be placed to rest in Mt. Olivet Cemetery sixteen and one-half years later.

Paul Cooper had two predominating characteristics – one was his loyalty and generosity to his friends, and other and greatest was his devotion to his grandparents. It was his desire to hasten home to be present when Mr. and Mrs. Cooper retired for the night that led to his untimely death. It is to these old people as consolation must be given as they are passing into the golden sunset of life, with the recollection that their young grandson had devoted his life to them as was first to attend to their every want.

He showed marked ability along mechanical lines and was soon to be sent to a school preparatory to taking up the career of a mechanical engineer. His was of a nature that knew not what fear or failure was, and it is greatly to be deplored that a life so full of usefulness to his family and friends and of such promise to the future of this city be so ruthlessly cut down.

He is survived by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Cooper, Sr., by his twin sister, by several aunts, uncles, cousins, his father, Paul Gilmore, the actor, and other relatives.

Funeral Monday Morning

The funeral service will take place Monday morning at 9 o’clock at St. Raphael’s Cathedral. Arrangements have been made to let friends of the family to call at the residence Sunday morning between the hours of 10 and 11 and in the afternoon from 3 until 4.