Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Cope, Joshua 1813 - 
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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

JOSHUA COPE, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born December 12, 1813 in Ross County,
Ohio. His parents, Joshua and Isabella (McCrea) Cope, were natives of Virginia,
the former a Quaker, of Irish and Scotch, the latter of Irish descent. He was
the fourth of a family of seven children, four boys and three girls, two boys
and two girls deceased; his brother William was a prominent physician in Wyandot
County, Ohio, and is now a resident, of Greenwood County, Kan. The subject of
this sketch was educated in Marion County and chose farming for his occupation.
He carne to this county in November, 1832, when the country was all a forest,
and has resided here ever since. On November 17, 1836, he was united in marriage
to Elizabeth Hopkins, born February 26, 1817, in Pickaway County, Ohio, a
daughter of Robert and Nancy (Vesey) Hopkins, who were of Irish lineage, natives
of Delaware, and emigrated to Ohio at an early day. Mrs. Cope was the second of
a family of nine children, six boys, and three girls, two of the boys deceased.
Her brother, John F., was a representative of Boone County, Iowa; her brother
Samuel, Squire of Dudley Township, Hardin County, and Robert, Probate Judge for
two terms of Marion County. Mr. Cope has been a member of the Free-Will Baptist
Church for forty-three years, and Mrs. Cope since her seventeenth year. Mr. Cope
in politics is a Republican, has filled the office of Township Trustee for eight
years and is one of the successful, self-made men of Dudley Township.

Additional Comments:
Dudley Township

Excerpt from

"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

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