JOEL HENRY COOPER, M. D. - Biography

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This biography appears on page 638 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


JOEL HENRY COOPER, M. D., Burlington; born in Windsor Co., Vt., April
20,1821; was educated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., and
came to Illinois in 1844, and remained one year; in May, 1845, he came
to Spring Prairie (Walworth Co.), and remained there till 1853, when he
came to Burlington and located here ; he practiced medicine and kept a
drug store, and was also Postmaster here for thirteen years, being
appointed to that position by President Lincoln in 1861, which position
be resigned in 1874; he now owns the residence in which he lives, with
the ground. He was also Representative from Spring Prairie, in 1853, to
the Legislature, while practicing medicine there with Dr. Mills.