Mr. Cooper came West and settled at Heart Prairie, Wisconsin.

The evidence

• “Mr. Cooper on coming West in the spring of 1845 settled and lived for ten years at Heart Prairie, Wis., then lived three years at Clinton Corners, and in the spring of 1858 moved to Shopiere and engaged in the real estate business, continuing in that line till 1880, when he returned to Clinton township. He was a man of much influence and prominent in his community, filling numerous offices of trust and being for two years a member of the board of supervisors of Rock county when the board comprised only seven members.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 503 / book p. 989

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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