Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Cooper, Needham P 1833 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

NEEDHAM P. COOPER. A pleasant farm of about three hundred and forty acres in 
New Lenox Township is owned and operated by the gentleman above named, who has 
erected an excellent set of buildings and made other good improvements upon 
his estate. His home is located on section 10, where the greater part of his 
life has been passed. He was born in Brown County, Ohio, May 29, 1833, and was 
about eighteen months old when his parents removed to the Prairie State, where 
he grew to manhood upon his father's farm. He is the fourth of seven children 
making up the parental family, the others being William,who lives in Kankakee 
County; John W., deceased; Ann, deceased, who was the wife of Robert J. 
Broadie; Thomas F., a farmer in New Lenox Township; Elizabeth E., wife of 
Samuel Love, and Lydia J., deceased, who was the wife of Norman Carl. The 
father of our subject was the late John Cooper who was born in Pennsylvania in 
October, 1800, and who died in this county in 1875. The mother was Lydia 
(Perry) Cooper, born in 1807, in Brown County, Ohio, where her marriage took 
place and she and her husband lived until the fall of 1834. They then came to 
what is now Will County, and settled on section 10, New Lenox Township, taking 
up the burdens which the early settlers endured. Mrs. Cooper breathed her last 
in the fall of 1853. The gentleman of whom we write was married June 26, 1856, 
to Miss Margaret Louisa Francis. She was born on the old Francis homestead in 
New Lenox Township, January 3, 1834, and is probably the first white child 
born in Will County. She is a daughter of the late Abraham Francis, whose 
history is incorporated in a sketch of A. Allen Francis, elsewhere in this 
Album. She was the mother of seven children, as follows: Ella, who died in 
infancy; John, who died when about two and one-half years old; Frankie, who 
died when twenty months old; Margaret L., who is the wife of Jefferson Doig of 
New Lenox Township; N. Perry, who lives at home; Allen F., who is clerking in 
New Lenox, and Jessie M. Mr. Cooper acts with the Republican party. He has 
served as Assessor one year and as Constable four years. He and his good wife 
belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church in which he has held the offices of 
Steward and Trustee.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 

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