Jesse M. Cooper

COOPER

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 8/7/2005 at 21:19:15

Jesse M. Cooper, one of the three American settlers of Brookfield township, is a native of Stephenson Co., Ill., born Jan. 12, 1848. He is a son of Josephus and Eba (Tucker) Cooper, the father a native of Virginia, the mother of Illinois, where they were married. In 1854 Mr. Cooper came to Iowa and stopped the first winter at Dubuque. The next spring they came to Bremer county and settled in Polk township, where they remained until 1859, when they removed to Floyd county. There the mother died, and the father subsequently died at Plymouth, Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa. The had a family of eight children. The subject of this sketch was the sixth child, and after arriving at maturity followed farming. In 1865 he came to Worth county, and in the spring of 1872 settled on his present farm, on section 36, where he still lives. He was first married to Emily Trebel, a native of Canada, by whom he had five children. Four of whom are living – Pomeroy F., Ralph A., Harry B., Lawson (deceased), and Clifford. His wife died Jan. 28, 1881. He was again married Aug. 27, 1881, to Mary L. Graves, born May 16, 1855. They have one child – Guy E. Mr. Cooper's farm contains eighty acres. He is a member of the M. E. Church.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 725.