Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 918.
 
WILLIAM H. COOPER

     is a stock raiser residing one and one-half miles south from Adel, Lake
county, Oregon. He is a native of Wisconsin, born September 3, 1859.
    His father is Byron Cooper, a native of the state of New York; and his
mother was Malissa (Frekes) Cooper.
    Early in life Mr. Cooper removed with his parents to the state of Minnesota,
and in the fall of 1872 the family came to Colusa county, California, thence to
Alturas county, of the same state. Here the mother died. Our subject came to
Warner valley in 1888, and soon after returned to Alturas county, California,
only to remove with his father and two sisters to Warner valley, where he took a
homestead and preemption claim. He engaged in the stock business, on a small
scale at first, and now has a fine band of cattle and four hundred and eighty
acres of land. The major portion of his land is devoted to the culture of hay
and is irrigated by the Deep creek irrigation ditch, in which Mr. Cooper is
heavily interested.
     On March 17, 1892, Mr. Cooper was married to Mary E. Morrow, a daughter of
Joseph L. and Sibbrino (Ahart) Morrow. Two children have been born to this
union, Malissa Sibbrino and Martin Franklin Cooper.
     Mr. Cooper's father is still living, at the age of seventy-seven years, in
the Warner valley.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in February 2011 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.