Bureau County IL Archives Biographies.....Cooley, Henry
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Virginia Perry vperry@midwest.net January 1999

Biography of Henry COOLEY, Bureau County, Illinois

Henry Cooley, Fairfield, was born February 19, 1830, in Pittsford, Rutland 
Co., Vt. His parents, John and Amanda (Cook) Cooley, died in the same State, 
of which they were natives. Our subject’s ancestors came to America in the 
Mayflower.  Henry Cooley resided in Vermont till he was twenty-three years 
old, and then immigrated to Whiteside County, Ill., where he sold goods for 
four years. In April, 1858, he came to Bureau County and farmed eleven years, 
after which he came to Yorktown, where he has been selling goods for the 
last fourteen years for O. W. McKenzie, and also keeping the postoffice.  
Our subject was married in Vermont to Frances E. Rowe, who died here November 
18, 1870, age thirty-five years. She was the mother of four children, viz.: 
Franklin H., who was born August 11, 1859 (he married Jennie Van Drew); Mary 
A., born August 21, 1861, wife of A. O. Hunter; John H., born March 14, 1867,
and Frederick A. Cooley, born December 24, 1869. Franklin H. Cooley has two 
children, viz.: Charles H. and an infant daughter. Mrs. Mary A. Hunter has 
two sons, viz.: Merl D. and Frederick Hunter. Mr. Cooley is one of the 
standbys in Fairfield Township, having filled the offices of Treasurer and 
Clerk for about twenty years. Politically he is a Greenbacker. He has 480 
acres of land in Bureau County.

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