a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1814. He experienced religion in 1836; was licensed to preach in 1837, and in 1840 entered the Pittsburgh Conference, wherein he labored faithfully until the close of 1867. The last year of his life was spent in the service of the Western Seamen's Friend Society, as an agent. He died in 1868 or 1869. Mr. Cooper was of a sober, retiring disposition, a faithful minister, an excellent pastor, and an exemplary Christian. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1869, page 45.