Charles Cooper was a founder of C. & G. Cooper in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Cooper-Bessemer refers to the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation and the Cooper-Bessemer brand of industrial engines and compressors, manufactured in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

The Cooper-Bessemer Corporation was formed when C. & G. Cooper (founded in 1833) and the Bessemer Gas Engine Company (founded in 1899) merged in 1929. After the death of Elias in 1848, Charles sold an interest in the firm to T. L. Clark and reorganized as Cooper & Clark. In 1965, the company was renamed to Cooper Industries and relocated to Houston, Texas.[1] In the 1990s, Cooper Industries' Petroleum and Industrial Equipment Group was spun off to become Cooper Cameron Corporation, known today as the Compression Systems group of Cameron International Corporation.

Profile photo from Find a Grave, added by Todd James Dean

Sources:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Bessemer
• http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=954
• http://files.asme.org/ASMEORG/Communities/History/Landmarks/5518.pdf
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54072253
• http://www.hiawathagolf.com/assets/moundviewwalkingtour.pdf

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 27 2018, 16:51:00 UTC