Benjamin Cooley

Abt 1786 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Benjamin Cooley
  Birth	Abt 1786	Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I2194	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Reuben Cooley,   b. 25 Apr 1752, Quabbin Parish, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts d. 13 Apr 1835, Portage, Kalamazoo Co, Michigan (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Living
  Family ID	F787	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From Cooley Genealogy "moved to Chautauqua NY". From a paragraph "Cooley, Benjamin" in a document having to do with men from Kalamazoo County Michigan who participated in the California Gold Rush: "Four Cooley brothers, Thomas, Arad, Anthony, and Benjamin, came to Kalamazoo County in May of 1831. Thomas and Arad bought land in Portage Township while Anthony settled at Bronson, later renamed Kalamazoo. Anthony had a son, Benjamin, who died in Schoolcraft, Michigan on 29 Sep 1889 ae 70-71. A news item in the Kalamazoo Gazette of 6 Sep 1850 reports that the Balches, a Cooley and others were living 50 miles from Sacramento City. There are no data indicating which of the above-named Benjamin Cooleys went to California in 1850". https://kalamazoomuseum.org/localhistory/goldrush/goldrush8.pdf

  
  

• Sources

  [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), pp 496-97. "Birth dates taken from letter from Village Clerk of Greenwich, 1927" (Reliability: 4).