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| Prof. Thomas Jefferson Cooper (1876) |
Gallatin County ILGenWeb
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PROF. THOMAS JEFFERSON COOPER, Shawneetown, Gallatin County, son of Isaac and Lizpa F. Cooper, born at Shawneetown, April 15, 1848. Till the age of eighteen, he attended the district schools; he then entered McKendree College, where he remained till the spring of 1867, when he returned home and commenced teaching, resuming his college course in 1868, and remaining till the spring of 1869, when he again resumed the profession of teaching. During all this time he depended upon his own exertions. Feeling unable to continue his college course at McKendree, he entered the Branch Normal School in Southern Illinois, and continued at intervals, till 1874, when he was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for Gallatin County.
[1876. The Atlas of Illinois.]
Submitted by Jon Musgrave
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