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We take pleasure In presenting here
with a well executed likeness and brief
sketch of the life and business career
of a gentleman who needs no introduc
tion to readers of the Gold Leaf. The
name of D. Y. Cooper is known wher
ever this paper is read and his business
is drawn from every section where it
goes throughout the tobacco producing
districts of this and the adjoiningStates.
Much should ba accredited a man
who has, by his own unaided abilities,
succeeded in rising to an honorable
position in business and social circles.
Mr. Cooper commenced life with no
friendly hand to assist, but by honest
endeavor and native talent succeeded
in making a successful career. Starting
in life a poor boy he was compelled to
work hard and practice economy and
it was in this school that he learned
the iudustrious and frugal habits that
enabled him to lay the foundation
of a great and successful business. He
is in truth a self-made man, and by
native force and energy of character,
that win the confidence of the public,
has placed himself in an exalted position
among those who have had social or
j business relations with him.
j Locating here in the fall of 1872,
Mr. Cooper established himself in bus-
: iness as a warehouseman, and has
been actively and conspicuously inden
tified with the tobacco trade ever since.
