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John C. Cooper (Lincoln County, Kentucky, state rep and county attorney)

b. 1833 d. 1905

Lincoln County, Kentucky, attorney, county attorney, and politician. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Married to Pauline Karr Cooper in Madison County, Kentucky, on November 12, 1861. Father of Lucy A. Cooper and Fannie P. Cooper. Attorney in Lincoln County in 1860. County attorney for Lincoln County from 1861 to 1863. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Lincoln County from 1861 to 1863.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 8.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 91B, 92A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, Film #000183302.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

Find A Grave, "John C. Cooper (1833-1905)," Memorial #27321242, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27321242 (accessed July 1, 2019).

Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7020453, Madison County Deaths, File #15889.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 468.

KYR-0001-004-0080.

Citation

Cooper, John C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211021 (November 12, 2026).

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