Osceola County MI Archives Biographies.....Cooper, Ransom May 12, 1854 -
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Author: Chapman Brothers, Chicago
Ransom Cooper, Prosecuting Attorney of Osceola County and member of the firm
of Cooper & Winsor, attorneys, real-estate
and loan agents at Reed City, was born May 12, 1854, near Corunna, Shiawassee
Co., Mich. His father, andrew H. Cooper,
was a native of New York, and a farmer by vocation. the son was but six
months old at the date of his father's death.
After that event his mother, Sarah (McGilvrey) Cooper, returned to Sterling,
Cayuga Co., N.Y., where she lived with her
children seven years, returning when Mr. Cooper, of this sketch, was seven
years old, to Caro, Tuscola Co., Mich. She
died in 1879.
Ransom was a pupil in the common schools of Tuscola County until he was 17
years old. He became a teacher, which
pursuit he followed until he was 20, when he entered the Literary Department
of the University at Ann Arbor, where he
studied two years. He went thence to Port Austin, Huron Co., Mich., where he
followed the business of teaching three
years, meanwhile studying law under the instructions of the Hom. Richard
Winsor and his partner, Horace G. Snover, a
leading law firm of the Huron Peninsula. He was admitted to the practice of
law at the Bar of Michigan at Bad Axe,
Huron County, in august, 1879, and in the following month established his
legal business at Reed City. He formed a
partnership under the style of Colgrove & Cooper, which relation continued one
year, when the present firm was
established by the substitution of L. B. Winsor, and its connections are still
operative. The house has founded a
substantial law business, deals to a satisfactory extent in real estate, and
represents the following fire insurance
companues: Liverpool & London & Globe, American, British, Phoenix of
Brooklyn, and the Orient.
Mr. Cooper was nominated on the Republican ticket in the fall of 1880 for
Prosecuting Attorney, and made a successful
campaign against the candidate of the opposition element, scoring a triumph of
700 majority. He was re-elected in 1882,
without opposition.
Mr. Cooper is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is prominently
interested in local school matters.
His marriage to Lillian B. Colgrove occurred Dec. 31, 1878, at Charlotte,
Eaton Co., Mich. Edith Belle, only child, was
born at Reed City, Nov. 20, 1882.
Mrs. Cooper was born March 20, 1857, and is the daughter of Charles H. and
Catherine Colgrove.
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1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Osceola Co.
Chapman Brothers, Chicago
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