Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 783
STEPHEN I. COOPER

Stephen I. COOPER, who is numbered among the later class of settlers who wended their way to the limits of Harrison County soon after the construction of the Northwestern Railroad, will form the subject of a notice in this connection. His present (1891) home is located on section 4, of Cass Township. In company with his parents, Charles H. and Lucinda M. COOPER, he arrived in Harrison County during the month of March. His parents now reside six miles from Turin, Monana County, Iowa. They first staid one year at Jeddo, and the next year lived one mile south of Woodbine, also lived at different places in Crawford County, Iowa, where they purchased a farm in 1875, and resided until 1878, and then removed to Monona County.

Mr. COOPER was born in Oswego County, N.Y., April 29, 1855, and was the third child of a family of six. His early years were spent in the old Empire State, assisting his father and attending the district schools until the family moved to Harrison County.

When our subject left home he was seventeen years of age and possessed a robust constitution, so he followed farm work, receiving a man's wages until 1880, working by the month. On March 6th of that year he was united in marriage to Rosella R. ELLISON, a native of Harrison County and a daughter of M. A. and Hannah ELLISON, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. They commenced their marriage life on one of the PECKENPAUGH farms, which they rented for four years and then purchased his present farm on sections 3 and 4, of Cass Township, comprising eighty acres of well-tilled land.

Mr. and Mrs. COOPER are the parents of three children -- Walter, deceased, born Dec 17, 1880; Floyd H., born May 4, 1886; and Hattie B., born September 2, 1888.   What our subject owns he has made through his own exertion, labor and good management. Politically, he supports the Republican party.

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