Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Cope MD, Dr. Leidy L. 1859 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

LEIDY L. COPE, M. D. Among the many professions in which men 
engage, none requires more skill and ability than does the 
medical profession, of which Dr. Leidy L. Cope, of Hatfield, 
Hatfield township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, is a 
representative. He was born on the old homestead in 
Hilltown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1859.

Yost Cope, the founder of the American branch of the family, 
who settled in Hilltown township, Bucks county, 
Pennsylvania, in 1727, was an enterprising, hard-working 
man, and during his lifetime accumulated considerable land. 
He married Dorothea, and several children were born to them.

John A. Cope (great-grandfather), a son of Yost and Dorothea 
Cope, was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county. He earned 
a comfortable livelihood by the tilling of the soil, and in 
the community was regarded as a man of excellent character 
and probity. He married and reared a family of children to 
lead useful and active lives.

John A. Cope, Jr. (grandfather) was born on the old 
homestead in Hilltown township, Bucks county. His education 
was acquired in the common schools, and his active business 
career was devoted to the quiet but useful calling of 
agriculture, which proved remunerative and to his liking. He 
took an active interest in all enterprises that lead for 
their object the welfare of his township and county. By his 
marriage to Suzanna Savocool, of Hilltown township, he 
became the father of one child, John F. Cope.

John F. Cope (father) was born in 1808, on the home farm in 
Hilltown township, Bucks county. He gained a thorough 
knowledge of the rudimentary branches of education in the 
common schools of the neighborhood, after which he turned 
his attention to farming, which he followed until his 
advanced years compelled him to retire from active pursuits. 
He was a strong Democrat in politics, was recognized as a 
local leader, and took an active part in political 
campaigns. He married Marie Leidy, deceased, a 
representative of an old Bucks county family, who bore him 
two sons: Milton L. and Leidy L. Cope. John F. Cope (father) 
died in 1892, in the eighty fourth year of his age.

The educational advantages enjoyed by Leidy L. Cope were 
obtained in the common schools of Hilltown and the 
Sellersville high school. In 1880 he took up the study of 
medicine under Drs. Fritz and Ritter, at Perkasie, 
Pennsylvania, and in April of the swine year entered 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which 
institution he was graduated with honors in 1883. He 
practiced his profession at Hilltown until 1887, a period of 
four years, and then came to his present home in Hatfield, 
Hatfield township, where he is in receipt of a large 
practice. He is skillful and accurate in the diagnosis and 
treatment of disease, and not only has he gained the good 
will of his numerous patients, but that of his professional 
brethren as well. He is a member of the board of health, and 
for several years was the incumbent of the office of school 
director. He is a member of the Lutheran church of 
Souderton, and since 1885 has served as organist of the 
same, being endowed with rare musical genius and ability. He 
is a stanch Democrat, and, like his father, in earnest and 
active party worker.
 
In 1886 Dr. Cope was married to Miss Sadie E. Zeigler, a 
daughter of Eli and Sarah (Rothrock) Zeigler. Eli Zeigler 
was formerly a merchant of Hatfield. Their family consists 
of five children, all of whom are unmarried and reside at 
home: Roscoe, who is reading medicine under the 
preceptorship of his father; Webster, Zeigler, Emma, and 
Sarah Cope.

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