Robert L. Cooley
3 May 1869 – 19 May 1944
Robert Lawrence Cooley, born in Waubeka, Wisconsin, was an American educator. He spent his early life on a farm and working in his father's lumber mill and wagon factory. He graduated from the state normal school at Oshkosh (1894), and spent the years 1895-1903 as teacher, school principal, superintendent, and clerk of the school board at Oconto. In 1903 he moved to Milwaukee as an elementary school principal. His experience won him the appointment of first director of the Milwaukee Vocational School (1912) and he continued in this position until resigning in 1940. Under his management, the sc
