Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

H. W. COPE, horse-collar manufacturer, Joliet; born in Newark, N. J., Dec. 13, 1843, 
where he lived and attended school until 14 years of age, when he immigrated with his 
parents to Joliet, where he lived two years; in 1859, he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, 
where he lived two years and commenced to learn his trade; from there he removed to 
Newark, N. J., where he lived two years when he returned to Joliet and finished his trade; 
he purchased the interest of his father in July, 1868; he confines business exclusively 
to the manufacture and jobbing of horse collars, supplying the wholesale trade largely 
in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Indiana; he employs four hands and such machinery as 
can be made practical. He married in Joliet July 6, 1865, to Lottie V. COOK she was 
born Nov. 23, 1 843, in New York; they are the parents of two children now living, viz., 
Lottie A. and Henry L.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.