This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. Typed by Lora Radiches: Surnames in this biography are: Cooper, Ellis, Riggs, CLYDE F. COOPER, county recorder of Vigo County, is an Indiana ex-service man and has had an interesting career of participation in public affairs since the war. Mr. Cooper was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, May 12, 1895, son of Frank P. and Mary E. (Ellis) Cooper. His grandfather moved to Eastern Illinois from Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Frank P. Cooper brought the family from Hoopston, Illinois, to Terre Haute about 1893 and for many years was in the grocery business. He died at Terre Haute in 1923. Clyde F. Cooper attended the common schools at Terre Haute, and after graduating from the Wiley High School entered Rose Polytechnic Institute, where he was a student for three years. In April, 1917, soon after America declared war on the Central Powers, he enlisted in Company H of the One Hundred and Fifty-first Infantry, Thirty-Eighth Division, was in training at Indianapolis and later at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. After the armistice he returned to Terre Haute and completed a course in the Brown ’s Business College. He taught in the commercial department of the schools at Marion, Illinois, and had charge of the commercial work in the schools of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, for a time. He then returned to Terre Haute and was cost accountant at the American Car & Foundry Company. In the meantime he had interested himself in politics and in 1924 was elected a member of the Indiana State Legislature from Vigo County on the Republican ticket, serving during the term 1925-26. In the year of 1928 he was elected on the Republican ticket to the office of county recorder of Vigo County for a term of four years. Mr. Cooper married at Indianapolis, June 5, 1928, Miss Elisle L. Cooper, of the same name but of an unrelated family. She was one of the five children of Edwin and Ammildo (Riggs) Cooper. Mr. Cooper is a member of the Blue Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knights Templar Commandery, Scottish Rite, and the Grotto of Masonry, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Loyal Order of Moose. He belongs also to the American Legion, Fort Harrison Post No. 40, a past vice commander and in 1925 served as state historian of the Indiana Department of the American Legion, and to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is a member of the Central Presbyterian Church and is active in the work of the Republican party.