Husband Murray A. Cooper 1 2
Born: 18 Sep 1849 - Franklin Twp, Washington Co, PA 1
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Father: William Cooper (1821-1900) 2 3
Mother: Eleanor Day ( - ) 1 2
Marriage: 1899 2
Wife Sophie Conn 2
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Father: Henry Conn ( - ) 2
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1 M William Murray Cooper 2
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2 F Eleanor Day Cooper 2
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General Notes: Husband - Murray A. Cooper
He was educated at the Southwestern State Normal College of Pennsylvania, and at Union College Ohio. At the age of seventeen he commenced teaching, and continued in that vocation in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Read medicine but never practiced. On September 18, 1871, he established the Washington Advance (name changed to Observer), with H. B. Durant as partner, and continued its publication until November, 1873. This he sold and then purchased the Mt. Pleasant (Pennsylvania) Journal, which he edited and published five years. He was recording secretary of the Pennsylvania Editorial Association in 1877. In 1879 he located in Steubenville, Ohio, and was connected with the Herald two years. For three years he was special correspondent with the Cincinnati Gazette. Owing to failing health, Mr. Cooper retired from newspaper work in 1884, and turned his attention to farming and stock raising, locating upon the home farm in Franklin township. In 1890 he became interested in Dorset Horn sheep, and was the first to introduce this important brand of English sheep into western Pennsylvania. In June, 1891, he made an importation from the best flocks in England. On March 31, 1891, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he assisted in organizing the Dorset Horn Sheep Breeders Association of America, being unanimously elected secretary and treasurer of the organization; reelected in 1892, and January 11, 1893, in New York City, was elected to the same position. He was a resident of Washington, Pennsylvania, where he conducts the business of the Association, which became one of the most successful organizations of the kind in the country, having members in twenty-four States, Canada and England. In politics he was a strong Republican, and in religion he was a Presbyterian.