Tipton-Switzerland County IN Archives Biographies.....Copher, Joel 1824 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   JOEL COPHER is a native of Gallatin County, Ky.; he was born April 26, 1824,
and is the third of eight children born to Joel and Sarah (Foley) Copher,
natives respectively of Kentucky and Virginia; he was reared upon a farm and
received a fair education from the common schools. At the age of twenty, he
began farming in Switzerland County, Ind., and made a good home of ninety-five
acres, on which he lived until the fall of 1868; he then removed to this
township and purchased forty acres of land, but the August previous he had
purchased 160 acres (where he now lives), which at that time was in its native
state. He began to clear the forest and built a log cabin, into which he moved
in 1869; he has here redeemed a good home, and has seventy acres under good
cultivation. In early life, he was a Whig, having cast his first President
ballot for Gen. Taylor, but he is now a stanch supporter of Republican
principles. He is an industrious farmer and leading citizen, at all times ready
to encourage home enterprises. He was married, January 19, 1844, to Miss Martha
A. Brinson, a native of Switzerland County, Ind.; she was born December 26,
1827, and is the daughter of Anthony and Nancy Brinson, natives of Kentucky. Mr.
Gopher became the father of ten children-Nancy, Sarah, Mary E., Catharine,
George F., Jonathan L., Joel O., Emma, and Anthony, deceased, and Margaret J.,
deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Copher are members of the Christian Church.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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