This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COOPER, GALLOWAY, FERGUSON, THOMPSON, NORTHUP, KOBERG, COOPER, THOMAS, BAYLEY, FISH Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nZB.2ACE/296 Message Board Post: The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., December 25, 1924, page 5 D.J. COOPER, WASCO PIONEER, IS DEAD (From The Dalles Chronicle of last Friday.) Daniel J. Cooper, a pioneer of Wasco county, died yesterday afternoon at the Good Samaritan hospital in Portland. Mr. Cooper was 88 years of age and is survived by his wife and 14 of their 15 sons and daughters. Mr. Cooper was born in Tennessee but moved with his parents to Missouri when he was 2 years old. When he was 20 years of age Mr. Cooper came to California with an uncle, but returned to Missouri in 1861. He enlisted in Company D. of the 76th Missouri regiment, took part in several skirmishes and battles of the Civil war, and was honorably discharged with the rank of second lieutenant. He was one of the oldest members of the James W. Nesmith post of the G.A.R. here. In 1863, with his wife and two children, one of whom was born on the plains, Mr. Cooper arrived in Oregon by ox-team, having made the journey with a train including his father and a large family of brothers and sisters. Settling in Polk county, Mr. Cooper remained for 20 years in the Willamette valley before coming to eastern Oregon where he lived on a ranch on the Ten Mile creek and in The Dalles. In politics Mr. Cooper was Republican, and represented this section several times on committees to the state legislature. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention which nominated the late Warren G. Harding president. Mrs. Cooper, who survives her husband, makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Francis V. Galloway, of this city, Mrs. Galloway being her youngest daughter. Sons and daughters who survive are: Dr. Belle Ferguson, of Seaside; C.C. Cooper, of Dufur; Mrs. James Thompson, of Lewiston, Ida.; E.N. Cooper, of Billings, Mont.; Mrs. C.I. Thomas, of Troutdale; Mrs. F.W. Bayley, of The Dalles; Cyrus Cooper, of The Dalles; Mrs. Ruth Cooper Fish, of Los Angeles; Daniel J. Cooper, of Montana; Mrs. Virgilia Northup, of Portland; Lieutenant Colonel A.J. Koberg, of Portland, and Mrs. Francis V. Galloway, of The Dalles. Another son, Lynn Cooper, died as a small boy. Also surviving are 44 grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Crandall chapel with Rev. Bryant C. Preston, pastor of the Congregational church, officiating. This was posted for reference only. I am not related to, nor am I researching this family. If you have additional information about the person or event listed above, please post it as reply to this message.