Erasmus Cooper and Elizabeth Patterson

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Husband Erasmus Cooper ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1801 - Allegheny Co, PA
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           Died: 4 Nov 1856 2 3
         Buried:  - Des Moines, Polk Co, IA

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         Father: [Father] Cooper (      -      )
         Mother: 

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   Other Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Logan (      -      ) 2 - Massillon, Stark Co, OH

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Wife Elizabeth Patterson ^{1 2}

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           Died: 1846 3
         Buried:  - Perrysville, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: James Patterson (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Sarah Given (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M William Cooper ^{2 3}

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           Died: Aft 1893
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2 M John Cooper ^{2 3}

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           Born: 15 Feb 1836 3
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3 M Robert P. Cooper ^{2 3}

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4 M Henry Clay Cooper ^{2 3}

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           Born: 5 May 1845 - Bellevue, Allegheny Co, PA 2 4
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         Spouse: Carrie Virginia McCarrell (      -      ) 2 4
           Marr: 18 Dec 1889 2 4

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General Notes: Husband - Erasmus Cooper

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In 1855 he, accompanied by his sons, William and John, moved to Iowa and purchased a large tract of land, on part of which now stands the city of Des Moines. This property was sold in 1887 for $200 per acre.

He resided for a number of years on a farm near Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, but after the death of his first wife, in 1846, he moved to Massillon, Ohio, where he kept a book store. When he later moved to Iowa with his second family, his two elder sons, John and William, accompanied him. At that time transportation facilities were poorly developed and Mr. Cooper and his family had to go down the river from Steubenville by boat to St. Louis and thence to Keokuk, Iowa, and from there drove across the country to a farm near Des Moines, on which he settled and on which he lived until the time of his death. In politics he was a Whig.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Patterson

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She died, leaving her youngest child but eighteen months old.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 326, 363.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 787.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 363.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 364.