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property, which was nearly all swept away in the great flood. After the flood he returned to Meadville and practiced there up to January, 1895, when he located in Pittsburg, remaining in that city till June, 1896. He then returned to Johnstown, where he is now engaged in active practice.     On December 15, 1869, Dr. Cooper married Salome McFarland, a daughter of John McFarland, a prominent merchant of Meadville, Crawford county. To their union were born three children: Lizzie McFarland, who passed away at eleven years of age; John Bertram, who died at eight years of age; and James deceased in infancy.     Dr. Cooper is a republican in politics, and a member of Council, No. 401, Royal Arcanum. He has made a specialty for some years of throat and lung diseases, having completed a course in the Philadelphia Polyclinic, and is a surgeon of high standing for coolness and skill. Dr. Cooper has devoted his active life strictly to the duties of his profession. He is a member of the Cambria County Medical society, the Pennsylvania State Medical society, and the American Medical association. ROBERT S. MURPHY, third son of Francis Murphy, whose fame in the field of temperance is world-wide, and Elizabeth Jane Ginn, is the present district attorney for Cambria county. He was born on October 18, 1861, in Louisville, St. Lawrence county New York, and first attended school in Portland, Maine, where, at an early period of life his mother died. Subsequently, he removed to Fryeburg, in the same state, for the purpose of enjoying an academic course at Potts academy, a well-known educational institution; after which he successively attended schools at Freeport, Sterling, and

Abingdon, Illinois, at the latter place being a student at Hedding college; his education was completed in Pennington, New Jersey. In March, of 1880, accompanied by his brother, T. Edwin, whose fame as a speaker in his chosen sphere, is hardly second to that of his father, he came to Johnstown, and together they entered the office of Hon. W. Horace Rose as students of law, the subject of this sketch remaining the prescribed period of three years; the brother, T. Edwin, being compelled to relinquish his studies and assume the place of secretary and assistant to his father, who was then just embarking on an evangelistic tour, which eventually covered all of Great Britain proper. One of the very keenest regrets of Mr. Murphy's is that his brother never completed his legal education and became a member of the profession in the technical sense. It was the failure of a plan conceived by the father and most warmly adopted by the sons, that they should not only read law together, but should, at the proper time, be joined in its practice.     Having completed his studies in the office of Mr. Rose, Mr. Murphy was admitted to practice in the several courts of Cambria county on t he 7th day of June, 1883, and in October of 1885 the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania admitted him to membership.     In politics Mr. Murphy has always been a republican of the active, zealous type, and in 1892 he was unanimously selected by his party in convention as a candidate for the office of district-attorney for Cambria county. The contest that followed is a memorable one in the history of local politics, for despite an adverse majority and a candidate of marked popularity, the Republican party was successful, and Mr. Murphy was elected. In the discharge of the duties of the office, Mr. Murphy

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