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COOLEY FAMILY TO MEET OCT. 28Native Canandaiguan To Be Chief Figure At \ Annual SessionMembers of the Cooley family ! which traces its descent from Ben- , iamin Cooley, one of the founders of Springfield. Mass., in 1C?6. will assemble at the Cataract House. Niagara Falls, from Oct. 28 to 30, for the annual meeting of The Cooley Family Association of Amcrii a While the; family r.s distributed throughout the country, a large lt;number of the descendants of Benjamin Cooley'live in Western and Central New York...Chief figurfe at the meeting will be Dr. Mortimer E. Cooley, of Ann Arbor. Michigan, dean enuritus of the College of Engineering of the University of Michigan, and founder ol the Familv Association at a meeting in Springfield. Mass., last year Dean Cooley, together with his /two brothers, Lyman E. and Ernest C.. r.ow deceased, have been assembling! information on the Cooley family for (he past 53 years, gathering i' from yellowing archives in thin country, England, I-eland and elsewhere throughout the world Deci: Cooley is a native of Canandaigua and his Summer home is on the West Lake shore.Among other pi or inerd mr-mheis. of the family are Prof. I.eRoy Ckuk Cooley, of vassal- College; Prof Robert Allen Cooley, state entomologist of Montana; Harold Dunbar Cooley, Congressman fiom North Carolina; William Forbes Cooley, author; Robert Lawrence Ccolev. Michigan educator.Ofticers of tlie association now {tie: Dean Cooley, Ann Arboi. president: Frank E. Cooley, Jr.. Yonkers, 'treasurer; Harry C. Cooley. A'-dmore. Pa.-, chairman of membership committee; and M.S. J- K. Keatlev, Ben Lomond, Calif., genealogist. Mrs. Charles J. Eidcrfielct. Niagara Falls, is regional vice-president for Western New York.A program has beer arranger;, wliich includes registration and a general get-together Friday evening. Oct. 28; business sessions, a luncheon and an informal banc eel Oct 30. and sight-seeing trips Oct. 31 All members of the family whether by descent or marriage are invited
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Canandaigua Daily Messenger
Canandaigua, New York, US
Wed, Oct 26, 1938
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