Henry Clay Cooper and Carrie Virginia McCarrell

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Husband Henry Clay Cooper ^{1 2}

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           Born: 5 May 1845 - Bellevue, Allegheny Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: Erasmus Cooper (Abt 1801-1856) 2 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Patterson (      -1846) 2 4

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       Marriage: 18 Dec 1889 2 3

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Wife Carrie Virginia McCarrell ^{2 3}

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         Father: Thomas Rusk McCarrell (1795-      ) 3 5
         Mother: Elizabeth McComb (      -      ) 3

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Henry Clay Cooper

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On the death of his mother, he and three brothers (John, William and Robert) were brought to Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he found a home with an Aunt Mary, the others being cared for in different families. Young Henry received a good common-school education, and on May 1, 1867, he formed a partnership with his brother John in mercantile business at Eldersville. The firm continued under the style of J. & H. C. Cooper until April 19, 1891, when Henry C. retired from active business.

He attended school at Eldersville and Sharpsburg, and after gaining a little practical experience in the mercantile business, in 1867 he embarked in the same with his brother, John, and they successfully carried it on until 1890, when the latter retired. He continued the business alone for 12 years, but in 1902 sold out and also retired. He was a man of ample fortune, being one of the stockholders in the Washington National Bank of Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, the owner of considerable town property and also the owner of his grandfather Patterson's farm of 191 acres, which had not been out of the family since 1797.
He was reared in the Protestant Methodist Church, of which he was an officer.

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General Notes: Wife - Carrie Virginia McCarrell

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She was a member of the United Presbyterian Church.

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

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

5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 839.