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Horace David Cooper
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Born near Clinton, Ontario on 17 July 1838, son of Rev. H. C. Cooper and Susan Bowden, he attended the Niagara Grammar School then Trinity College, Toronto from which he graduated BA in 1859. He was ordained deacon at St. James Cathedral (Toronto) in 1861 and priest in October 1862. He served at various places in Ontario, successively Fergus, Holland Landing, Colborne and Brighton.
He exchanged charges with Rev. Gardner of Morris for one year starting October 1880 then he returned to Ontario, serving at Bolton, Lloydtown, Battern Mission, Stayner, Sunnidale, and Easter. He took charge of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church at Holland in June 1893, and remained there until 1897 when he moved to Dryden, Ontario.
On 20 July 1864, he married Selina Caroline Ruthven (1834-1905) of Hamilton, Ontario, with whom he had twelve children: Peter Edward Stewart Cooper (1865-?), Walter Cooper (1867-?), Horace Stanley Cooper (1868-?), Vivian Lansdown Cooper (1869-1964), William L. Cooper (1870-?), Alfred St. P. Cooper (1871-?), Walter Henry Cooper (1872-1917), Sextus Ruthven Pringle Cooper (1873-1964, publisher of the Baldur Gazette), Percy Francis Cooper (1876-1966), Ethel Madeline Cooper (1878-?), Ernest Octavious Cooper (1879-1968), and Violet R. Cooper (1884-1976).
He died at Fort William [now Thunder Bay], Ontario on 15 June 1909 while preparing to board the steamer Alberta. He was buried in Saint George's Church-on-the-Hill Cemetery at Etobicoke, Ontario.
The Canadian Album: Men of Canada or Success by Example, Vol. III, Bradley, Garretson & Company, Brantford, Ontario, 1894.
“Died suddenly,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 June 1909, page 7.
R.M. of Victoria, Past & Present, Volume 1 by RM of Victoria History Book Committee, 2002, page 154.
Salena Caroline Ruthven Cooper, FindAGrave.
Reverend Horace David Cooper, FamilySearch.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 September 2024
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