Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Cooper, William Hursey 1842 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

WILLIAM HURSEY COOPER.
Commercial activity in Ottumwa finds a worthy representative in William Hursey
Cooper, who in 1873 established the retail furniture business which he is still
successfully conducting under the firm name of W. H. Cooper & Sons. A native of
Maryland, he was born in Caroline county, January 25, 1842, and is a son of
Samuel Jackson and Caroline (Moffitt) Cooper, who removed from Maryland to
Pennsylvania in the year 1851. The son supplemented his preliminary education,
acquired in the public schools, by study in Carmichael College of Pennsylvania
and in 1865, when a young man of twenty-three years, he removed westward to
Fairfield, Iowa, where he engaged in the manufacture of corn planters. He was
married in 1867 and in the following year came to Ottumwa, where he arrived in
the month of April. For forty-six years, therefore, he has been a resident of
this city and throughout the entire period has occupied a creditable position in
business circles. In 1873 he embarked in the retail furniture business and has
since conducted his store, in which he carries a large and well selected line of
furniture, showing most attractive styles. The goods which he handles are from
some of the best known and most reliable houses of the country and his fair and
honorable dealing and reasonable prices have constituted the foundation of his
growing success. As his sons have reached adult age he has admitted them to
partnership and the business is now carried on under the firm style of W. H.
Cooper & Sons. This is one of the oldest furniture establishments in the county
and throughout the entire period of its existence the house has enjoyed an
unassailable reputation. Mr. Cooper also has some real-estate interests, having
made judicious investments in property.

It was on the 21st of November, 1867, that Mr. Cooper was united in marriage to
Miss Lydia Jane Wisecarver, a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Wilson) Wisecarver.
The children of this marriage are: James Clarence and Edward Giles, who are
associated with their father in the firm of W. H. Cooper & Sons; Guy William,
who is engaged in the furniture business at Shenandoah, Iowa; Frederick Richard,
who is vice president and general manager of the Abilena Water Sales Company at
Chicago; and Abbie Florence and Laura Georgia, both of Ottumwa. The parents are
members of the Baptist church, in the work of which they take an active interest
and to whose support they contribute liberally. Mr. Cooper is serving as one of
the church trustees. His political allegiance is given the republican party, but
he does not seek nor desire office, preferring to concentrate his energies upon
his business affairs. His has been a well spent life, active and useful, and the
principles which have guided him in all of his relations with his fellowmen have
made him one of the representative and valued citizens of the community.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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