BIO: JAMES S. COOPER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 339-340
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    JAMES S. COOPER. The valley of the Cumberland is the home of many
  prosperous men, whose families have been known in this locality as long as
  the United States of America have existed, and among them it is only proper
  to call special attention to
 
    340  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
 
  James S. Cooper, a resident of West Pennsboro township, Cumberland Co.,
  Pennsylvania.
 
    The founder of the Cooper family in this country is not known, but it is
  believed he came from Germany, and located in Cumberland, where Adam Cooper,
  the grandfather of James S., was born. Adam Cooper married Susan Ott, a
  daughter of Jacob Ott, of Carlisle, and by her had the following children:
  Samuel; and Emma and Marv E., who died in Cumberland county. By a second
  marriage Adam Cooper had three other daughters.
 
    Samuel Cooper, father of James S., was born in Newton township, Cumberland
  county in 1829. Until he was eighteen years of age he attended the public
  schools, after which he entered upon the apprenticeship to the blacksmith's
  trade, and after mastering it he went to Penn township and engaged in
  business. After eighteen years spent in that township, at Hockersville, he
  moved to New Kingstown, Silver Spring township, but after a year located in
  Dickinson township, at the stone house, and was there ten years engaged in
  his line of business. The next change was made when he went to Carlisle,
  where he worked in the car shops for three years, at the end of that time
  coming to Plainfield, in 1900.
 
    In 1854 Samuel Cooper married Rachel Foreman, daughter of David and Leah
  (Severs) Foreman, of German descent, and they had the following family:
  David, born in 1856; Leah J., born in 1859, deceased; Catharine C., born in
  1860, who lives at Carlisle, wife of John Bishop; James S.; William H., born
  in 1864, living in Penn township; Elder J., deceased; and Sallie B., born in
  1872, who is married and lives at York City, Pennsylvania.
 
    James S. Cooper was born in Penn township in 1862. Until he was fifteen
  years of age he had the advantages of the common schools, and at that time he
  began to learn the trade of blacksmithing with his father, following his trade
  for eight years. In 1884 he married Anna M. Hollinger, daughter of Jacob and
  Mary Ann Hollinger, of Dickinson township, and he began farming, which he
  followed in Dickinson, South Middleton and North Middleton townships,
  finally, in February, 1899, locating at Plainfield, where he engaged in the
  hotel business. He is now one of the best liked hotel men of his locality,
  owning and conducting the "Plainfield Hotel."
 
    The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are: E. S., born in 1884, in
  Dickinson township, attended the schools of his township, and later went to
  Shippensburg Normal School, and, having passed all his examinations with
  credit, is now teaching at Hopewell, Cumberland county; Sarah was born April
  10, 1898, and Florence was born in 1903.
 
    Mr. Cooper votes the Democratic ticket, and has served as assessor and
  inspector of elections and on the board of education of Dickinson and South
  Middleton townships. Through his enterprise, energy and good management he
  has steadily advanced his interests, and is now one of the most substantial
  and highly respected men in Cumberland county.