Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Cooper, John
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Wrightstown Township


   JOHN COOPER real estate agent and justice of the peace, 
P.O. Pineville, was born in Philadelphia county, at 
Holmesburg, July 1, 1823, being a son of Jacob and Ann 
(Johnson) Cooper, the former a native of Bucks county, and 
the latter at native of Philadelphia county.  The Cooper 
family emigrated from Scotland at an early day and settled 
in the lower end of Bucks county.  The grandfather, John 
Cooper, was a farmer and resided in Northampton township.  
He was noted as a marksman.  He owned and conducted a mill 
and a farm.  Jacob Cooper, his son, traveled a great deal in 
his early life.  He was a miller by trade and also carried 
on farming.  He located in Philadelphia county, where he 
followed milling. He moved back to Bucks county, and 
afterward settled in Northampton township, where he followed 
milling and farming many years, and where he died in his 
eighty-first year. John Cooper was reared in Philadelphia 
county, until about nine years of age, when he came to 
Northampton township with his parents and remained until he 
was about 26 years of age, when he was married and settled 
in Wrightstown township in 1849.  He then carried on the 
carpenter's trade for ten years, employing from six to ten 
hands.  When he came to Wrightstown he had but $100, which 
his grandfather left him.  He borrowed $800, $500 of it 
without security, to pay $900.  He has pushed ahead until 
now he is in a comfortable position financially, and can 
enjoy the fruits of his industry.  He was elected justice of 
the peace in 1885 for the fourth successive term.  He was 
married in 1848 to Mary Doan, a daughter of Benjamin and 
Sarah Doan, of Upper Makefield township.  They have but one 
child living, Stephen K., who married Nellie T., daughter of 
C. B. and Sallie M. Twining.