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extracted text: Charles D. Cooper, and went to housekeeping at 731
Green Street, where their daughter Fanny was born,
who died in infancy.

My brother soon after went into business on the
old Rowlett property at Nicetown, making brick and
retailing coal, and lived in a neat frame house on the
property fronting on Germantown Road.

From there, in 1863, they moved to Bangor,
Michigan—across the river from Bay City, where he
had charge of a large saw mill, salt works, barrel fac-
tory, etc., the property of Samuel Bolton & Co., lum-
ber merchants of Philadelphia, whom he represented.
They lived in a one-story frame office here on the
property, which served for both home and office, until
he could build himself a dwelling, and it was here
that their son Willie was born, who also died in
infancy.

They were both untiring workers, but overwork
and the exposure incident to a new country told upon
them both, and they were destined to enjoy the new
dwelling which he had built less than two years.
Once there were as many as seventy of the mill men
in the town down with fever at one time, and in the
fall of 1865 her husband was stricken down and died
of bilious fever October 6—a great loss to the com-
munity, for he was beloved by all his workmen, as
he had been their true friend and taken a great inter-
est in their welfare, a missionary pioneer on the bor-
ders of civilization ; and they had started a Sunday
School and Church service, where the opportunities

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