Biographical Sketch of

William W. Cooper

Transcribed by Sandra Boudrou



Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin, 
published 1890 by Acme Publishing Co., Chicago, Page 602 


William W. Cooper, who is the owner of a fine farm of 200 acres, situated on section 34, in the town of 
Buffalo, is numbered among the early settlers of Marquette County.  He is a native of New Jersey, and a 
son of David and Rachel (Wyman) Cooper.  His father was born in England and came to this country in 1819, 
when forty-five years of age.  He had previously been married, but his wife died, and on his journey he 
was accompanied by his two children--a son, who is supposed to have been killed during the late war, and 
a daughter, Mary Ann, who is now the wife of Nathan R. Bird, of Dunn County, Wis.  Two years after his 
arrival in America, Mr. Cooper wedded Miss Rachel Wyman, a native of New Jersey, and a daughter of Isaac 
Wyman, who was also born in the same State, but traces his ancestry through many generations until the 
family is found to have been of Holland origin.  
 
The subject of this sketch was the only child born to David and Rachel Cooper.  He was left an orphan when 
only four months old, his parents dying within a few weeks of one another.  He had many relatives, and by 
them was cared for until he could earn his own livelihood.  He was born Oct. 27, 1822, and at an early age 
began working in a paper mill.  In his youth he also engaged in clerking, and afterward followed the 
profession of teaching until twenty-four years of age, when the aunt with whom he was living having died, 
he came to the West with the view of trying his fortune in the Territory of Wisconsin.  He settled in 
Columbia County, where he remained three years, and in 1850 located on the farm on which he now resides.  
He further completed his preparations for a home by his marriage with Miss Lurana Rood, a native of the 
Empire State, and a daughter of Augustus and Bertha (Hale) Rood, who were natives of Massachusetts.  With 
her parents she came to Wisconsin in 1845.  Two children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, daughters, 
but one is now deceased, Ella E., who died Aug. 2, 1881, at the age of twenty years and twenty four days, 
and was interred in the cemetery near her home.  Mary A., the other daughter, is now the wife of George 
Eastman, a resident of Ashland, Wis.
 
As before stated, Mr. Cooper is the owner of a fine farm of 200 acres, which is under a high state of 
cultivation.  He has made farming his life work, and by his good management, industry and fair dealing has 
been very successful, and is numbered among the well-to-do citizens of the community.  It was no easy task 
to convert the wild land into its present state, but now his broad acres pay a golden tribute to the care 
and cultivation which he has bestowed upon them.  Mr. Cooper is a warm friend of the cause of temperance, 
and casts his ballot with the Prohibition party.  Though not a member of any church, he is liberal with his 
means in the support of benevolent work, and is widely known as an honest, industrious and intelligent 
citizen, whom Marquette County could illy spare.






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