Cooper, William A.

COOPER

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 9/16/2019 at 16:19:38

William A. Cooper

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.541)
WILLIAM A. COOPER, section 15, Waveland Township, Pottawattamie County, post office Griswold, is another one of the enterprising and successful citizens of the township. He has resided here since 1881.

Mr. COOPER was born in Scott County, Iowa, near the Muscatine County line, October 6, 1855. His father, John Perry COOPER owned land in both counties. He was a native of Tennessee of Irish extraction. Mr. Cooper's mother, nee Jane PACE, was a native of Kentucky. His parents were married in Illinois, near Rock Island, and were among the early settlers of Iowa. The mother died in the fall of 1877, and the father, at this writing, aged seventy-eight years, resides in Muscatine County, Iowa. They reared a family of eleven children, ten of whom are now living, viz.: Robert, Mary, John P., Louisa, Catherine, Harriet, William A., Emma, Josephine, and Winona. Vilena, the second born is deceased. Robert, the eldest, served all through the late war and now lives in Adams County, Iowa.

The subject of our sketch passed his youth on a farm, eleven miles from Muscatine and attended the public schools in Muscatine and Scott counties. In 1877, he took up his abode in Montgomery County, Iowa, where he worked at farm work by the month. He was married in that county, March 24, 1880, to Miss Mary EVERETT, a native of Henry, Marshall County, Illinois. Her father, Charles EVERETT, a native of Ohio, born near Urbana, is now a resident of Cheltenham, Illinois. He was formerly a druggist, but is now engaged in the grocery business. Her mother, Sarah (JENKINS) EVERETT, a native of Virginia, is deceased. She was a Methodist, as also is Mr. EVERETT. Politically he is a Democrat.

In 1881, Mr. COOPER came to Pottawattamie County and bought eighty acres of improved land. He sold that property and in 1889 purchased his present farm of J. G. CRAMER. Mr. COOPER has a good frame residence situated on a natural building site and surrounded by shade and ornamental trees. He has barns, sheds, cribs, hog house, yards and orchard. His farm is well watered, and is considered one of the best improved in the neighborhood.

Mr. And Mrs. COOPER have four children: Earl, Edna, Howard and Ida. He and his wife are members of the Evangelical Church, of which he is a trustee. Mr. COOPER is a man yet in the prime of life. He is fair and honorable in all his dealings, and is regarded as one of the representative citizens of Waveland Township. Politically, he is a Democrat.