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Title: History of Sacramento County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present;
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Willis, William Ladd
Subjects: Sacramento County (Calif.) -- History Sacramento County (Calif.) -- Biography
Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Historic record company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r organizations. The marriage of Mr. Cooper and Miss Joanna Powelson, a nativeof Philadelphia, Pa., was solemnized in Sacramento October 19, 1869.Mrs. Cooper is the daughter of a California pioneer who died whilestill in young manhood. Afterward her mother became the wife ofCaptain Cunningham, a Mississippi river captain of the early days,but later until his death a captain on a Sacramento river steamboat.When a girl Mrs. Cooper studied music under Mulder Fabri, a world-famous instructor. No expense was spared in the cultivation of herrich soprano voice and she became one of the most popular soloistsin Sacramento. Her two daughters. Misses Laura and Ruby Cooper,are also accomplished musicians and prominent in musical, literary,golf, tennis and other club affairs of the city. LOUIS H. STEWART It may be said that the entire life of Louis H. Stewart, the man-ager of the Sacramento branch of the Central California canneries,has been passed in or near a fruit cannerJ^ Born in Healdsburg, I
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^ \ i HISTOEY OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY 565 Sonoma county, during the year 1868, he was the son of Joseph E.and Harriette (Fiero) Stewart, and in this vale of fruitage andbloom known as the Valley of the Sotoyome, he practically finishedhis school days and childhood at seventeen, and was prepared forwork. He found his first job in T. S. Merchants fruit canneries inthat place, and held it for five j^ears, a portion, or the latter portionof that period being the foreman of the establishment. In 1890he was employed with Miller & Hotchkiss, fruit canners and packers,also in Healdsburg, and he remained in that place until 1894. Hisnext change was to Geyserville of that county, a warm-belted fruitregion, where he took charge of the Walden & Co. fruit canneriesuntil 1901. He then removed to Sacramento, became foreman in theSacramento branch of the Central California canneries, and twoyears after was appointed manager. Mr. Stewart is as successful as a manager as he was as a fore-man. The

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