Cooper, E. P.

COOPER

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/21/2008 at 13:49:06

E. P. Cooper

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.210, Pleasant Twp.)
E. P. Cooper, farmer, P. O. Shelby, born May 6, 1837, in Beverly, Ohio, son of John and Frances (Petty) Cooper; he, a farmer, born in England, December 4, 1806, is still living in Marion, Linn County, this State; she, born April 16, 1809, in Tennessee, is still living in Linn County. They have had ten children, seven boys and three girls. Subject went to school in Ohio, commenced life as a farmer, and married, in August 22, 1861, in Ohio, Mary E. Brabham, born in Loudoun County, W. Va., September 19, 1843, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha (Stevenson) Brabham, he born in West Virginia June 30, 1818; she, in Loudoun county, W. Va., September 14, 1820. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper have two children, viz., Flora E., born April 20, 1864, and Willmer, born April 29, 1867. Subject is a Republican, an A. H. T. S., and came from Ohio to Linn County, this State, in 1859; went to Illinois in 1868, from there to this township (Pleasant) in 1872, bought 160 acres of wild land at $9 per acre; went back to Illinois, lived there two years, returned to this township in 1874, built a house and other buildings himself, set out a number of trees and has the farm almost all under cultivation.