Pearson, Sophie Cooley, d. 1978.

Sophie Cooley Pearson, a resident of Westwego, Louisiana, was the daughter of steamboat captain L. V. Cooley (d. 1931). L. V. Cooley, the son of a river boat captain, piloted the steamboats America and Ouachita on the Mississippi River. His daughter, Esther Cooley, published the monograph COME ABOARD THE STEAMER AMERICA: THE LAST COTTON PACKET BOAT ON THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI, 1898-1926, and his brother, Stoughton Cooley, published the monograph THE CAPTAIN OF THE AMARYLLIS (1910). Sophie Cooley Pearson collected photographs and items related to the history of steamboats on the Mississippi River.