Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Cooper, Thomas L. 1883 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 21, 2006, 3:25 am Author: John C. Odell (1916) THOMAS L. COOPER, M. D. Thomas L. Cooper, physician,Deer Creek, Indiana, was born on February 2, 1883, in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and is a son of John W. and Lyda E. (Hamilton) Cooper. He was reared on a farm and received his early education in the district schools of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, after which he became a student in the Grove City College, and from there he entered the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he took the full four-year course in the medical department, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Through a competitive examination, he served for fourteen months as resident physician of the Presbyterian Hospital at Pittsburgh, after which he located and practiced for three years at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On February 28, 1915, Doctor Cooper came to Carroll county and located at Deer Creek, where he has already established a very promising practice, and has associated himself with the County and State Medical Societies. Politically, Doctor Cooper is a Republican, but has never taken any part in local politics. Fraternally, he belongs to the Phi Rho Sigma society of Pittsburgh. Dr. Thomas L. Cooper was united in marriage in 1912 with Edith S. Dillon, daughter of Margaret E. Dillon, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was born in Pittsburgh and received her early education in the common schools and later attended the state normal school, of which she is a graduate, and was a teacher for ten years in the public schools of Pennsylvania. Both Doctor Cooper and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. Doctor Cooper is young and ambitious, is a man of high principles, and both he and his wife have already won many friends in the community. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Biographical Section of HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS BY JOHN C ODELL With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ILLUSTRATED 1916 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/cooper160nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb