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RICHARD CHARLES COOPER
After an active and successful
business career as a druggist in the east, the late Richard Charles Cooper came
to California for the benefit of his health.
He was born in Massachusetts, August 5, 1881, a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Cooper, that state. Following
the completion of a public school course he prepared for the profession of
pharmacy as a student in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was graduated and
received his degree. Thereafter he
continued active in the drug trade as a registered pharmacist in various states
of the east until the condition of his health necessitated a change of climate
and he took up his abode in Long Beach, California, in 1928. Here he died suddenly of heart failure on the
1st of March, 1932, when fifty-one years of age, leaving to mourn
his loss the large circle of warm friends whom he had won during the period of
his residence in this city. He was a
devout member of the Congregational Church and also a worthy exemplar of the
teachings and purposes of the Masonic fraternity, to which he belonged.
On the 29th of April,
1926, in New York City, Mr. Cooper was united in marriage to Miss Mary Marian,
daughter of Walter and Margaret Marian, of Jersey City, New Jersey. Mrs. Cooper resides in an attractive home at
388 Obispo Street and is well known and highly esteemed throughout the city of
Long Beach.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. III, by John Steven McGroarty, Page 405, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis.
1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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