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


WILLIAM COOPER retired farmer, P.O. Tullytown, was born in 
Bensalem township, this county, February 25, 1823, and is a 
son of David and Ann (Dowdney) Cooper, both of whom were 
natives of this county and of English descent.  His father 
was a shoemaker.  William was the fourth in a family of 
seven children.  He attended school in his native place and 
afterward in Middletown township, his parents moving to the 
latter place when he was a child.  He learned the miller's 
trade and followed it for eighteen years.  In 1860 he bought 
a farm in Falls township and made farming his business until 
1875, when he retired.  His first wife was Louisa, daughter 
of Samuel and Louisa (Wright) Headley.  She died in 1860.  
By her he had eight children:  Caroline, wife of Stokes 
Mason; Samuel, who married Sara, daughter of William 
Flowers; Mary Ann, single; Harriet E., wife of Warren J. 
Lecompt; Frank, who died at the age of fourteen; William 
Henry, who married Mary A., daughter of James Fabian; Joshua 
H., who married Eliza, daughter of J. B. Wright; and David 
B., who married Lillie, daughter of Joseph Stackhouse.  Our 
subject's present wife is Jane B., daughter of Thomas and 
Rachel S. (Skelton) Cooper.  In politics Mr. Cooper is a 
republican.