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142	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
His works are equipped with sand blast and staining furnaces and the latest improved machines and devices for producing the very finest grades of work. As a designer and blender of colors Mr. Heslop ranks with the most skillful workmen in the country. His business is large and he receives and fills special orders and contracts from many of the large cities. In 1902 Mr. Heslop admitted his son to partnership with him, and from that time until 1904 the business was carried on under the firm style of Wm. Heslop & Son. In the year last mentioned the firm incorporated under the name of Johnstown Stained Glass and Electric Fixture Company, with ample capital to carry on business on an extensive scale, and with officers as follows: William Heslop, president; E. H. Wise, secretary and treasurer, and William H. Heslop, superintendent and designer.     In 1875 William Heslop married Margaret Hocker, daughter of John Hocker of Johnstown. Three children have been born of this marriage: Clara Heslop, born October, 1876, lives at home. William H. Heslop, born 1 November, 1877, superintendent and designer of the Johnstown Stained Glass and Electric Fixture Company. Ida Heslop, born December, 1880; married Philip Bender, of Johnstown. Mr. Heslop and family are members of the Lutheran church.     ANSON BURLINGAME COOPER, a practical man of business of Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, holding a position of trust and responsibility for many years for the Cambria Steel Company, is highly honored and respected in the community in which he makes his home. He has many of the desirable characteristics of his ancestors, those on the paternal side being Irish, and the maternal, Scotch.     Joshua Cooper, grandfather of Anson Burlingame Cooper, and the pioneer ancestor of the Cooper family in this country, was born in county Tyrone, north of Ireland, about 1778. He emigrated to the United States in 1786, and came to Somerset county, where he was reared and followed the occupation of farming. He secured a tract of land in what is now Jenner township, Somerset county, but which was then a part of Bedford county, on the ground afterward selected for the stone pike leading from Philadelphia and Baltimore to Pittsburg. Joshua Cooper lived with his widowed mother, four brothers and one sister, who had crossed the ocean with him. Upon the completion of the stone pike before mentioned, there was a great demand for teams and wagons for the transportation of goods between the large cities, and the Cooper family were not slow in taking advantage of this means of transacting business. Joshua Cooper was twice married. By his first wife he had children--five sons and three daughters: 1. William, lived to an advanced age near Johnstown, and was buried near Jenner. 2. Francis, married, and had four sons and six daughters. 3. Charles, and 4, Hugh; there is no record extant except that they ended their days in Somerset county. 5. Joshua, located in Westmoreland county, near Murrysville. His land later became valuable natural gas property. One of his sons, Dr. John M. Cooper, has been for years a prominent dentist in Pittsburg. Joshua Cooper married his second wife, Jane Boyd, in Somerset county, and by her he had one son and seven daughters: 1. James, see forward. 2. Agnes, died in her girlhood, of typhoid fever. 3. Rachel, married Chrisley Berkey, a carpenter and cabinet maker, lived for many years in Jenner, removed to Johnstown early in the sixties, where Mr. Berkey died in 1866, leaving her with five children--four sons and one daughter. 4. Rebecca, married, in 1850, Rev. John Riley, a minister of the

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