HARLEY SOPER
Harley Soper, one of the old residents of Cass county, is a native of Canada, having been born near Brookville, on the 29th of September, 1813, and is the son of Timothy and Dorcas (Williams) Soper. He was reared upon a farm, and on account of the crude state of society at that early day, received but a limited education. He grew to manhood in the place of his nativity, and upon the 13th of April, 1835, he was united in marriage with Parmelia Bullis, and by this union, there have been seven children, three sons and four daughters--Cora A., Maria D., Adeline P., Leonard H. W., Arretta D., Holmes A. and Loren D. In 1855 the family moved from Canada, and came to the United States, settling near Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois, where he remained until 1859, when he came to Cass county. This was then a wild and sparsely settled country, and Mr. Soper selected a farm in Atlantic township, and soon put up a cabin thereon, to shelter his family, and installed them in it. This farm he sold in 1879, and then removed to Atlantic, where he at present resides, and is ranked among the self-made, moneyed men of the community.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 889-890.
