Dr. T. M. Cooley    

DR. T. M. COOLEY, Sandy Lake, was born January 19, 1846, in French Creek Township, to William and Elizabeth (Paden) Cooley. The parents were natives of Pittsburgh. They came to Mercer County about 1838 and settled in French Creek Township. The father was a blacksmith, and erected a shop on his farm of 125 acres, which he had bought soon after locating there. He died in 1849, and his children were: Matilda, married Hugh Patton; James, a merchant at Cochranton, Crawford County; T. M., Robert, the chief police officer at Texarkana. Mrs. Cooley survives. The father was married prior to his union with Elizabeth Paden. His first wife was Matilda Paden, by whom he had John, deceased; Jane, married Joseph Smith and is deceased; William, lives near Meadville, Penn.; Eleanor, married James Smith and is deceased, and another child, who died in infancy. Dr. T. M. Cooley was educated in the common schools at Cochranton, and at the Edinboro Normal. He taught three terms of country school. At the age of seventeen years he began reading medicine with Dr. Bates, of Cochranton, and later read with Dr. Johnson at the same place. He attended the Cleveland Medical College, where he was graduated in March, 1868, and began the practice of his profession the same year at Utica, Venango County, where he remained until 1875, when he located in Sandy Lake, forming a partnership with Dr. E. X. Giebner, which lasted until April 1, 1888. He served one year in Company E, One Hundred and Twelfth New York Volunteer Infantry. He was married in 1872 to Miss Sarah A., daughter of James Dickey, of Venango County, by whom he has had two children: Judson C., a student at the New Lebanon Academy, and Robert B. D., deceased. The doctor has been a member of the town council and school director. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., of which he was master for four years. He belongs to the Mercer County and the State Medical Associations, is medical director of the E. M.. B. A. and was one of the charter members of that institution. He is united to the K. L. H., and is a Democrat. A few years ago, while driving to see some of his patients, his horse took fright at the train, ran away and threw his arm across the track so that it was crushed by the cars. His escape from sudden death was a miraculous one, and the after struggle was one that but few could have stood.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, page 1047-1048.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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