My Great Grandfather, James Tolbert Cooper, was born in 1860 in what is now Lincoln County, WV. He lived to be 102. His first wife was my Great Grandmother, Lydia Jane Linville, who was the daughter of Mandeville Linville and Angeline Elkins.
Manderville was the son of Logan Linville who was the brother to Preston Linville. Claud married Emmer Cooper who was the daughter of James Tolbert and Lydia Cooper Linville.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...