Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Cooper MD, Dr. Richard Lee October 20, 1835 - 1904
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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

RICHARD LEE COOPER, M. D., one of the oldest and most 
favorably known of the medical practitioners of Montgomery 
county, resides at Ogontz. He is a native of Northampton 
township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he was born 
October 20, 183-, a son of Jesse and Jane (Lee) Cooper (both 
deceased).

Jesse Cooper was the son of John and Eliza (Hibbs) Cooper. 
The father was a native of Montgomery county, and the mother 
of Northampton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. The 
children of John and Eliza Cooper were Henry, Jesse and 
William, now deceased.. Jesse Cooper was born in Northampton 
township and spent most of his life there, engaged in 
tilling the soil. Their children: Richard Lee, subject of 
this sketch; Sarah, deceased, married William Buckman; John 
D., Eleanor, wife of Theodore Leedom; Rebecca, also married 
a Leedom; Robert and Jesse.

Dr. Richard Lee Cooper was educated in the public schools of 
the vicinity in which he lived, and at Newtown Academy. He 
studied in preparation for the duties of his profession at 
the old Philadelphia Medical College, from which he 
graduated in 1860. He began practice as a physician at 
Richboro, in Bucks county, and practiced continuously in 
that vicinity for fifteen years. He has practiced in Ogontz 
since 1875. He has held the office of deputy state medical 
inspector since 1886, and has been health officer of the 
township of Cheltenham since 1896. He is a member of the 
State Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and of the Montgomery 
County Medical Society. In his religious views he affiliates 
with the Society of Friends.

Dr. Cooper was married in Philadelphia to Mary Vandeventer, 
daughter of John and Ann Vandeventer. Their children: Horace 
and Lizzie, both died in childhood; James Rudolph, a 
practicing physician of Trenton, New Jersey: Marie, wife of 
Walter G. Elliott, residing in Providence, Rhode Island. 
Mrs. Cooper died January 7, 1891.

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