Colbert County AlArchives Biographies.....Cooper, S.J.  September 4 1845 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    S. J. COOPER, M. D., one of the leading physicians and surgeons of
Tuscumbia, was born in that city, September 4, 1845. He is the son of Lyddle B.
Cooper, deceased, one of the most prominent members of the bar of northern
Alabama. Samuel J. Cooper received a common school education and in 1863
enlisted in company I, W. A. Johnson's cavalry regiment. He participated in the
battle of Harrisburg, Miss., Newnam, Ga., and was with Forrest at the surrender
of Athens, Ala. He was also in all the battles as far as Pulaski, Tenn., and at
the battle of Selma. He surrendered at Pond Spring, Ala., and after the war
returned home and entered a mercantile establishment as a clerk. In 1866 in
company with other parties he commenced business for himself under the firm name
of Nelson, Wilson & Cooper. In 1868 he began the study of medicine with Dr.
Abernethy and graduated from the Memphis Medical college in 1871. He spent one
year in the hospital at Memphis and then returned to Tuscumbia and practiced
medicine there during the winters 1873-74. Dr. Cooper spent some time at the
college of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city, receiving private
instruction under Drs. Wyeth and Loomis. For the past twenty years Dr. Cooper
has been regularly engaged in the practice of medicine at Tuscumbia. During this
time he has met with gratifying success in all the branches he has practiced,
and he has earned the reputation of being one of the leading physicians and
surgeons in the county. He is a member of the Colbert County Medical society and
the board of censors. He is also a member of the State Medical society, is a
Knight of Pythias, and a Knight of Honor, and is a member of the Presbyterian
church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 693


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