M. S. Cooper

biography

Cooper, M. S., farmer, Meadville, was born in this county August 17, 1830, and is a son of Lewis and Fidelia (Smith) Cooper, natives of Massachusetts and Connecticut respectively, and of English origin. His parents were early settlers of Vernon Township, this county. The father, who was a prominent farmer, had a family of six children, all of whom except our subject were the children of his second wife, our subject’s mother dying when he was young. The father died in 1856. He had held most of the township offices. Our subject received his education in Kingsville College, Ohio, and farmed until he was thirty-eight years of age, when he came to Meadville. He served as Chief of Police in Meadville, but his life work has been that of an agriculturist. He was married in 1856 to Rachel, daughter of Robert Harper, who is a sister of Hon. W. S. Harper, of Meadville; they have one child— Rebecca. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Meadville. In politics he is a Republican.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 722.