Stephen Cooper

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Husband Stephen Cooper ^{1 2}

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           Born: 14 Feb 1775 2
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           Died: 29 May 1853 2
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         Father: Moses Cooper (1727-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Mary Doty (1733-1823) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Stephen Cooper

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He came to Butler County, Pennsylvania, soon after his brother, Nathaniel, and nephew, Zebulon, and discovering a vacant piece of land, made a settlement upon it. He located at the Big Spring, in Centerville, and was the first inhabitant of the land where the borough was later located.
His descendents left Butler County and went west.

He was the pioneer settler of Centerville, Butler County, Pennsylvania. His house stood in the southern part of the borough on the hill near the spring. The location was known as Ginger Hill, from the fact that Cooper kept tavern and gave plenty of ginger with the whisky that he sold. (Others have it that he sold ginger and gave away the whisky.) Stephen Cooper died there and his family removed.

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 388.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 498.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 898.