“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


ALFRED COOLEY, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Hebron; born in Cattaraugus 
Co., N. Y., June 8, 1835; came to Wisconsin with his parents, Vinson 
and Julia A. Cooley, in 1843; has spent most of his life and been 
educated in Wisconsin; spent his first winter in Rochester, Racine Co.; 
lived about eighteen months in Whitewater and then settled in Hebron, 
Jefferson Co.  Enlisted in 1862, in the 1st Wis. Heavy Artillery; was 
stationed on Arlington Heights, Va., and was in the fight with Early 
when he attacked Washington; he was discharged at Milwaukee in July, 
1865, and married Miss Isabella Marshall the same year; they went to 
Lyon Co., Kan.; where Mrs. Cooley died in 1866; Mr. Cooley returned 
to Hebron, and, in 1869, married Miss Arabella Lewis, born in Walworth 
Co., Wis., in 1849; they have three children - Bertram, Frederick and 
Harold.  Mr. C. settled on the farm he now owns, of eighty-seven acres, 
in 1874.  He is a Republican, and has been Town Treasurer two terms, 
Justice of the Peace, Constable, and is now chairman of the Town Board 
of Supervisors; is in accord with the Universalist Church, and a member 
of Hebron Grange, No. 428.

Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)