[p. 415] a physician and surgeon of high standing at New Castle, who was formerly associated in practice with his brother, the late distinguished Dr. Joseph L. Cooper, belongs to an old Pennsylvania family which was established in this state by his great-grandfather, Robert Cooper, who was born in County Down, Ireland. Edwin S. Cooper was born in Taylor Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1872, and is a son of Robert and Nancy A. (Jackson) Cooper.
The Cooper family was founded in Lawrence County in 1843, by James Cooper, the grandfather of Dr. Cooper. He married Elizabeth McLester and they reared seven children, Robert Cooper being the second son of the family. Robert Cooper was born in 1823, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and he became the owner of the many acres of the valuable limestone land which has made the Cooper family of this section one of substance. Robert Cooper married Nancy A. Jackson and they had the following children: James H., Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, Leander, Joseph L., Charles O., Mrs. Mary Colwell, Mrs. Maud Davis and Edwin S.
When Edwin S. Cooper was fourteen years of age, his parents moved to New Castle, and from the schools of this city he entered Grove City College, where he continued his studies until the spring of 1892, when, encouraged by his older brother, the late Dr. Joseph L. Cooper, he decided to bend all his energies to the study of medicine for which he had had a taste boyhood. Under the careful tuition of the late Dr. Cooper, he prepared for the Western Pennsylvania Medical College, where he was most creditably graduated March 25, 1896. He then entered into partnership with his brother and the firm became a leading one of the county. Since the lamented death of the older physician, Dr. Edwin S. Cooper has continued alone in practice and has won an enviable position in his profession. He is identified with all of the medical organizations of the county and the leading ones of the state, and also has numerous fraternal and social connections. His residence and office are located at No. 74 North Mill Street, New Castle.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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