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Journalist; general agent, New York Life Insurance Company
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Cooper was born in the house at 321 East Berry Street, son of Henry Cooper — who arrived in 1824 and was the second lawyer admitted to practice in Allen County — and Eleanor (Munson) Cooper. He finished Fort Wayne high school in 1868, was city editor of the Gazette while still young, and graduated from Dartmouth in 1873 as class poet. He studied law at Columbia and in New York and Fort Wayne offices but chose journalism, serving at various times as city editor of the News, Sentinel, Gazette and Journal, joining the St. Louis Globe-Democrat's editorial staff in 1888 and returning as managing editor of the Journal. He then moved into insurance, becoming general agent of the New York Life Insurance Company in 1895; his son Brown later joined the firm. He was a school trustee 1896–99, board president the last two years, and a member of the Indiana Board of State Charities from 1901 under Governors Durbin and Hanley. He married Nellie Brown of Lafayette on 30 August 1887.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.