Cooper, Samuel F.

COOPER, LOUGHRIDGE

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Date: 1/13/2013 at 08:37:35

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

COOPER, SAMUEL F.—Grinnell Twp—pg 892. The subject of this brief notice was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on the nineteenth of December, 1826. He attended the Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio, graduating from that institution in the class of 1851. Five years later, in 1856, he removed to Grinnell, Iowa, and that same year was admitted to the bar. In 1858 was honored by the people by being elected a member of the State Board of Education, under the new constitution; was re-elected in 1860, and had a large share in framing the present school law of the State. Mr. Cooper enlisted as a private in company E, Fourth Iowa cavalry; was mustered out of the service at the close of the war as lieutenant colonel of the Fortieth Iowa infantry. Served as clerk of the United States District Court for Arkansas for three years; during this same period he was Collector of Internal Revenue and United States Commissioner. He returned home to Grinnell in 1868, and for several years was the publisher and editor of the Grinnell Herald. In 1876 Mr. Cooper was appointed United States Consul at Glasgow, Scotland, and served four years, when he was recalled and is now in private life. His marriage was to Miss Margaret J. Loughridge, of Mansfield, Ohio, whom he married on the twenty-eighth of August, 1851.