Frederick W. Cooper and Mary W. Manown

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Husband Frederick W. Cooper ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 25 Mar or 31 Mar 1837 - Nottingham Twp, Washington Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: Samuel F. Cooper (1807-1875) 2 4 5
         Mother: Sarah Van Voorhis (1814-1892) 4 5 6

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       Marriage: 20 Oct 1870 2

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   Other Spouse: Marie L. Stewart (      -1864) 1 - 4 Jan 1860 2

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Wife Mary W. Manown ^{2 3}

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         Father: John Manown (      -      ) 2
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Children

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1 M Frank A. Cooper ^{2 3}

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           Born: 12 Aug 1871 - Nottingham Twp, Washington Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Mary Jane Pinkerton (      -      ) 3
           Marr: Jun 1898 3

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2 F Clarinda Cooper ³

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            AKA: Clara G. Cooper 2
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3 M Samuel F. Cooper ^{2 3}

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4 F Ella F. Cooper ^{2 3}

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General Notes: Husband - Frederick W. Cooper

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He attended public schools and was his father's assistant until the latter's death, then inherited the home farm, which he cultivated until his retirement. He then resided at Charleroi, Pennsylvania. He was a Democrat in politics, a member of the Baptist church and of the Masonic Order.

He was an extensive traveler. He left home when a young man, and herded cattle six months for his uncle Van Vanvoorhis, in Illinois, in 1854; then returned home, and in the autumn of 1856 went to Missouri and Kansas, arriving in the latter state just at the close of the Kansas troubles. He then traveled throughout the West. In 1860 he and his wife moved to a tract of land in Iowa which his father had entered of the Government, remaining there three years, improving the land, when, his wife's health failing, they returned to her home in Pennsylvania, where she died. He stayed at home the following summer, and in 1865 shipped a carload of horses to Illinois, sold his horses, organized a company with Mr. V. B. Ward, of Richland, Keokuk County, Iowa, and on April 13, 1865, they started for California, in wagons, arriving at Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 4th of July following. They remained there one year, thence going to northern Montana, where they passed a year in the mines. He then entered the commissary and quarter-master's office as clerk in Montana, and was employed there six months under James L. Fisk, afterward riding his horse 500 miles from Helena, Montana, to Walla Walla, Washington, on the Columbia river, thence going to San Francisco, California, where he sold books three months for H. H. Bancroft, finally returning to his home in Nottingham township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was proprietor of 160 acres, known as the "Nottingham stock farm," near Venetia post-office. The farm was principally pasture land, and he made a specialty of raising fine Jersey cattle, also a good grade of roadsters. Mr. Cooper in his political affiliations was a Democrat.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary W. Manown

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from Washington Co, PA

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 477.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 510.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1324.

4 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 196.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1323.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 510, 633.