Just in time for a weekend read of a possibility .................
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015822160_cooper05m.html
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I do not doubt he was a surveyor. PLUS he was a Southern surveyor. I have never seen such a "Here, hold my beer" moment escaltae into such a "Hey y'all, watch this!" moment in my life. 😉
There was a big article in the local paper about him today. It makes is sound like in 1951 when he graduated from high school in Sisters, Oregon he tried to get on with the local mill here in town but didn’t get hired on so left the region. Lived in California, Reno, Iowa and other parts of Oregon and died, broke, in Eugene Oregon in 1999. I’ve looked and he wasn’t licensed as a surveyor in Oregon or California and being an “engineering surveyor” he may not have ever been licensed anywhere.
So if you live in any of these areas and recall hearing of a surveyor, likely a field guy, by the name of L.D. Cooper, from the 1950s to maybe the 1980s, then that could be this guy. I took a look through some of our field books at work from the 1950s and at first glance there weren’t any crewmembers by the name of Lynn, or L or LD Cooper.