The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 188 

THOMAS S. COOPER.

Thomas S. Cooper has since 1892 resided upon his present farm not far from
Outlook and is the oldest settler of that portion of the county. He was born in
California. January 8, 1848, a son of James and Sarah (Bigelow) Cooper, who were
natives of Scotland and of Nova Scotia respectively. They were married, however,
in California, to which state they had gone in 1845. The father was a ship
carpenter and both he and his wife remained residents of California to the time
of their death.

Thomas S. Cooper obtained a public school education in California and there
followed farming until 1884, when he came to Yakima county and took up a desert
claim and timber culture of six hundred and forty acres, the place being located
four and a half miles northwest of what is now Sunnyside. He left that district
but returned in 1892 and homesteaded a part of the land which he had secured,
changing one hundred and sixty acres of the tract from a desert claim to a
homestead. He settled upon this property and has since occupied it. He has one
hundred and twenty-five acres under cultivation, producing large crops of corn,
potatoes and alfalfa, and conducts his farming interests along progressive
lines.

Mr. Cooper has two children: Raymond, twenty-eight years of age, now in the
United States hospital service in Scotland; and Edna, a teacher in California.
Mr. Cooper is a member of the Native Sons of California. His political
endorsement is given to the republican party but he has never been a politician
in the sense of office seeking, always preferring to concentrate his efforts
upon his business affairs. As the years have passed, covering more than a
quarter of a century in which he has lived upon his present ranch, he has
wrought a marked transformation in the appearance of the place and it is today
one of the valuable farm properties of the district.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.