C. J. Cooper Biography


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C. J. COOPER, the efficient postmaster of De Voe, Faulk county, is also 
proprietor of a general store in that town and is owner of a fine farm 
near there. He engages in grain and stock raising, and is one of the 
earliest settlers of that region. 

Mr. Cooper was born in Dane county, Wisconsin, in 1859, and was a son 
of A. C. and Lucinda (Guininp) Cooper. The father was born in England 
and was a wheelwright by trade, and the mother was born and raised in 
New York. The parents of our subject were married in Wisconsin, and 
there the father worked at his trade in Dane county. After his death in 
1867 the mother married H. S. Utely, and two daughters were born to 
this union. 

Our subject was the second in a family of four children, and attended 
the public schools of his native place, and also attended business 
college at Madison, Wisconsin. He left home at the age of twenty-one 
and: worked at farm labor one summer, and the following summer he spent 
at carpenter work, and also attended business college. He came to Faulk 
county, South Dakota, in 1882 and filed a claim to land east of Ashton. 
Later in the spring of that year he took the southeast quarter of 
section 6, township 118, range 66, and on that land completed the first 
shanty erected in the county. He hauled supplies from Athol, and lived 
on the claim during the summer, and spent two years on that farm, 
during which time he hauled lumber for other early settlers, and 
engaged in farming on his land. He bought land in township 119, range 
67, in 1884, and the same year moved onto that farm, remaining there 
two years, after which he moved to Aberdeen, where he clerked in a 
general store for C. A. Bliss. He came to De Voe, Faulk county, in 
1888, and bought an interest in a general store, which he later sold, 
and moved to Huron, where he was employed by the Consolidated Land and 
Irrigation Company for two years. He then returned to De Voe and 
engaged in farming, and also purchased a general merchandise stock, 
which business he has since conducted. The store was established by 
Charles I. Crow and Mr. Thom in 1883, and our subject has enlarged the 
building and stock. He possesses two hundred and forty acres of land, 
and engages in stock and grain raising. 

Our subject was married in 1884 to Miss Alice Lambert, who was born and 
raised in Lafayette, Wisconsin. Mrs. Cooper's parents were natives of 
England, and her father, Furniss Lambert, came to America when a young 
man and married in Wisconsin. Three sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Cooper as follows: Edwin Furniss, Harold and Pernet. 

Mr. Cooper is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has been 
postmaster of De Voe for the past six years, and politically is a 
Republican.