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History of Tompkins, Schuyler,
Chemung, Tioga 1879
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Page 317 - Nehemiah Cooper
- Charlotte Woodhouse Biography
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NEHEMIAH COOPER,
son of John Cooper, and grandson of John Cooper, Sr., a native of New
Jersey, was born in the town of Enfield, Tompkins Co., N. Y., Nov. 7, 1822.
At the age of three years he removed with his father’s family to Alpine,
Cayuga Co., where he resided for nine years. He then removed to the town
of Chemung (now Baldwin), in Chemung County, where he assisted his father
in clearing and improving the farm. He was thus engaged until his twenty-fourth
year. In 1842 he purchased twenty-eight and a half acres of land, and two
years later twenty-six acres more, after which he embarked in agricultural
pursuits upon his own possessions. This small beginning was the nucleus
of his present fine farm and home.
In 1846 he married Charlotte, daughter of William Woodhouse,
a native of Rutland Co., Vt. By this union were born to them five children,
viz., Hannah Ophelia, George Franklin (died young), Lloyd H., Delphine,
and Monroe. The latter died at the age of ten years.
Mr. Cooper, like so many of our successful American farmers, is a self-made
man, his chances for an education having been quite limited. For several
years he was proprietor of a hotel, but abandoned it for the more congenial
pursuit which now engages his attention. In politics he is a Democrat,
and he has served his town as assessor for three years, as collector for
two years, and has held other offices in the gift of his fellow-townsmen.
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John Kimble was
born in Sussex Co., N. J., May 23, 1789, and is consequently now in his
ninetieth year. He is the son of Peter and Eve (Kouse) Kimble, who were
among the old settlers of his native county. He received what little education
he had time to acquire in the public schools of Sussex Co., N. J., and
has followed agricultural pursuits as a vocation the greater part of his
life.
On the 6th of March, 1816, he united in marriage with Lydia Scott,
daughter of Joseph Scott, who was born at Muncy, Pa., on the 16th of March,
1793. She died on the 19th of June, 1839. They had a family of nine children,
the names of whom, and the dates of whose births, are as follows: Peter,
born March 5, 1817; married Mary Davis. Eve, born Nov. 5, 1818; died March
30, 1841. Henry S., born Dec. 29, 1820; married Lucetta Stine. Deborah,
born June 10, 1822; married Phineas Catlin, of Odessa. Joseph, born June
24, 1825; married Sarah Austin. George, born Dec. 24, 1826; married Mrs.
Martha Ray. William, born May 27, 1829; died Feb. 23, 1856. Jemima, born
Sept. 25, 1832; married James Becker. John, born Aug. 29, 1837; died March
31, 1841.
Between two and three years after the death of his first wife,
Mr. Kimble married again, August 15, 1841, choosing as his second wife
Mrs. Martha Truesdell, by whom he had two children, namely: James D., born
February 15, 1847; married Lizzie Lane. Charles A., born October 8, 1850;
died May 13, 1862.
Mr. Kimble removed to the town of Catlin in 1844, and has since
resided there. He has reached the good old age of eighty-nine years, and
is still hale and hearty, which is owing to the regularity of his habits,
and a temperate and industrious life. He has been an enterprising farmer
for many years, and has lived an honest and upright life. His friends and
neighbors regard him as a man of irreproachable reputation, whose life
has been as nearly blameless as it is possible for erring humanity to be.
In politics Mr. Kimble is a Republican; in religious belief he is liberal.
The portrait which accompanies this brief sketch of his life
has been inserted by his daughter, Mrs. Phineas Catlin, as a token of filial
regard, and as a deserving representation of a worthy man on the pages
of local history.
