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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

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           WILLIAM H. COOPER, SR., of the mercantile firm of COOPER &
        CREEVY at Port Austin, has been prominent in the business history
        and the development of the resources of Huron County for the past
        20 years. He has been a resident of the county since the fall of
        1857, when he came to Huron City and entered the employment of R.
        B. HUBBARD & Co. as book-keeper.
           He operated in that capacity until 1865, when he went to Grind-
        stone City, and in company with WILLIAM CREEVY and GEORGE WHITNEY,
        of Sandusky, Ohio, bought the grindstone quarry now owned by
        WORTHINGTON & Sons, to whom the property was sold in 1870.
           Within that year, the present firm of COOPER & CREEVY was
        formed, and their mercantile business established at Port Austin.
        They carry a stock of general merchandise adapted to the require-
        ments of their patrons and representing about $7,000. They handle
        dry goods, groceries, mill products and hardware, and require two
        assistants.
           The firm is engaged in the transaction of business in several
        other avenues, among which is the manufacture of lumber in Lincoln
        Township, in Huron County, where they have timber lands. They ship
        their lumber to Sandusky, Ohio. The lumber firm includes ORANGE
        NOBLE, of Erie, Pa., and their landed possessions in Huron County
        embrace about 7,000 acres. The same association are also the pro-
        prietors of the interest known as the New River Company, in Huron
        Township. They have two salt wells and manufacture salt by the pan
        method, having facilities fox the production of about 150 barrels
        daily. They employ 25 assistants and ship their salt to Detroit,
        Toledo and St. Louis. Their works include a sawmill and they make
        the barrels used in their business.
           MR. COOPER was born Jan. 8, 1838, in County Wexford, Ireland.
        His parents, Dr. W. W. and ELLEN (HEATH) COOPER, are also natives
        of Ireland, and his father was a prominent physician there. He died
        in Ireland, in 1878. The mother and two sisters now reside in San-
        dusky, Ohio.
           MR. COOPER came to the United States when he was 19 years of
        age. He was in the city of New York five months and came thence to
        Sandusky, Ohio, where he remained three months, or until the fall
        of 1857, when he came to Huron City, Huron County.
           He was married in Huron City, July 16, 1864, to CHARLOTTE E.
        PEER. Their three children were born as follows: WILLIAM H., JR.,
        May 5, 1865; EUPHEMIA A., Jan. 30, 1867, at Grindstone City;
        CHARLES ARTHUR, March 20, 1869.  MRS. COOPER is the daughter of
        CAPT. AARON G. and EUPHEMIA (WESTBROOK) PEER, of Grindstone City.
        (See sketch of CAPT. A. G. PEER.) She was born on St. Clair River,
        on the 28th day of February, 1846.
           MR. COOPER is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

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