Charles A. Cooper and Margaret J. Meek

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Husband Charles A. Cooper ¹

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           Born: 25 Nov 1845 - Moon Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: William Cooper (1812-1887) 2
         Mother: Nancy Gilchrist (1815-1900) 1

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       Marriage: 16 Sep 1870 3

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Wife Margaret J. Meek ³

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           Born:  - Moon Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Bazaleel Meek (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Nancy Hood (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M Frederick Meek Cooper ³

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           Born: Apr 1872 3
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         Spouse: Bessie Oglesby (      -      ) 3

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2 F Mary Cooper ³

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         Spouse: Robert J. Davidson (      -      ) 3

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3 F Ethel Cooper ³

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         Spouse: Obed D. Robinson (      -      ) 3

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4 M Chauncy G. Cooper ³

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 F Nettie Cooper ³

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 U [Infant] Cooper ³

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General Notes: Husband - Charles A. Cooper

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After attending the public schools of his native township he took a course of study in civil engineering in a private school in Pittsburgh, under the instruction of Professor Vandernalen. He obtained two years of practical experience in his profession as a member of the government engineering corps surveying the lower course of the Ohio river, and then surveyed the eastern end of Pittsburgh with Mr. Kennedy, a commission taking a year and a half to complete. He was next employed as a surveyor for the new water works of Pittsburgh. In 1871 Mr. Cooper formed a partnership with William A. Edeburn under the firm name of Edeburn & Cooper, surveying and general engineering, an association that continued pleasantly until its dissolution in 1899, after which time Mr. Cooper persisted along the same line until his retirement from active business in 1907. Aside from his professional connections Mr. Cooper devoted much time to business transactions, among them mining and oil production. He was one of a company who were the owners of extensive and valuable oil properties in Oklahoma and Illinois. When they disposed of a share of their holdings to the Standard Oil Company, one million and a half dollars was the consideration. Mr. Cooper was one of the stockholders and president of the Republic Bank Note Company of Pittsburgh, and a director of the Minnetonka Oil Company. Numerous other companies claim him as adviser and close confidante, and he was interested in desirable mining property in Mexico.
His church was the Presbyterian, and he was an officer of an organization of that denomination in Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1897 Mr. Cooper was a resident of Coraopolis, having built a handsome and commodious house of modern design at No. 1000 Highland avenue, on the crest of an eminence overlooking the valley of the Ohio river. The grounds surrounding the house were extensive and well-kept, the smooth lawns dotted with shrubs and flower-beds and intersected by wide driveways; in the rear a greenhouse where fragrant plants blossomed the year round.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 257.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 256, 411.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 258.