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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 whiclt 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.