BIO: Roger COPE, Beaver County, PA
    
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    BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
    of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
    Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 49-50.
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    ROGER COPE is one of the persevering, enterprising and successful lawyers
  at the bar of Beaver county. He has, by virtue of his energy and ability,
  impressed himself upon the borough of Beaver Falls, and has achieved marked
  success for a young man. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 and took up his
  permanent residence in Beaver Falls, where he opened an office for the
  practice of law. He was born in Fairfield township, Columbiana county, Ohio,
  December 8, 185o, and is a son of Samuel D., grandson of Jesse,
  great-grandson of John, great-great-grandson of John, who was a son of Oliver
  Cope, the first representative of the family in this country, he having
  emigrated from England.
    
    Jesse Cope was born in Fayette county, Pa., and in 1802 located in
  Columbiana county, Ohio, where he followed farming. He was a Quaker. His wife
  was Margaret
    
    Dixon, and they became the parents of eight children: Ellis; Samuel; Hiram;
  Elizabeth (Irwin); Mary (Taylor); Ann; Hannah, and Lucinda. Jesse died aged
  fifty-six years. Samuel D. Cope was born in Fairfield township, Columbiana
  county, Ohio, May 5, 1815, and was reared and trained to agricultural
  pursuits, which he followed throughout his active career. In 1878, he retired
  to Leetonia, Ohio, where he has since resided. He was joined in marriage with
  Alice Rogers, a daughter of John and Phoebe Rogers of Columbiana county, and
  she passed from this earth in 1864 aged forty-eight years. Their children
  were named as follows: Rufus is practicing law in Chicago, Ill.; Mary Etta
  (Piersol), deceased; E. Cyrena (Rogers); F. Eudora, who resides at Leetonia,
  Ohio; Roger; Emma A., deceased; Jeanette, deceased; Amanda F., who lives at
  Oakland, Cal.; and Alice, who also resides at Leetonia, Ohio. Roger Cope's
  father was formerly a Republican, but is now a Prohibitionist; during the
  Civil War he was a strong anti-slavery man.
    
    Roger Cope attended the public school of his native town and Mt. Union
  College, Ohio; he then taught one year in his native county and one term at
  Georgetown, Illinois. Having a desire to fit himself for the bar, he began
  studying with his brother Rufus, who was practicing in that town;
  subsequently he took a course of lectures at the University of Michigan, from
  which institution he was graduated in 1881. During his legal studies he
  applied himself with intelligence, vigor and energy,
    
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  and thoroughly familarized himself with the theory and practice of law, as
  his subsequent progress well testifies. Upon graduation, Mr. Cope immediately
  established himself in business at Beaver Falls, and he has many influential
  and valuable clients, whose interests are looked after with fidelity and a
  great amount of success.
    
    Mr. Cope was wedded June 28, 1894, to Mary C. Mercer, a native of
  Columbiana county, Ohio, and they have one child, Rue Alice. In politics, the
  subject of our sketch is a stanch Republican; socially, he is a K. of P.