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Cooper, Horace Clark

JR., merchant, printer, publisher, was born May 6, 1849, in Lake Mills, Wis. He has compiled and published a number of biographical works; and since 1873 has been president of the American Biographical Publishing company of Chicago, Ill. He is closely identified with the foremost publishing houses of Chicago, as president of the Brown-Cooper Typesetting company, the largest and most complete linotype composing establishment west of New York.

Cooper, James B

naval officer, was born March 6, 1753, in Bucks county, Pa.

In 1812 he entered the navy as master, and served in that capacity during the war.

He was promoted to lieutenant in 1822, and became commander in 1841. He died Feb. 5, 1854, in Haddonfield, N. J.

Cooper, James Campbell

mineralogist, was born June 16, 1832, in Baltimore, Md. He has taken great interest in the study of geology and mineralogy, and has collected, located, and named fully 50,000 specimens of minerals, including a collection of 9,000 specimens that he presented the university of Kansas.

Cooper, Job A

banker, governor, was born Nov. 6, 1843. His interest in public affairs led to his service in the Denver city council in 1876 and his election as treasurer of the state university at Boulder. In 1889 he was made governor of the state for two years. He was for some time president of the First National bank, and is now president of the National Bank of Commerce.

Cooper, John

congressman. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress in 1776.

Cooper, Joseph Alexander

soldier, was born Nov. 25, 1823, in Somerset, Ky. He served during the Mexican war.

In 1864 he was made a brigadier-general, in which capacity he commanded on the march through Georgia, receiving the brevet of major-general in 1865. He held the office of collector of internal revenue in Tennessee from 1869 till 1879, and later, again resumed his farming in Kansas.

Cooper, Myles

clergyman, author, was born in 1735 in England. He was an episcopal clergyman who came to America in 1762, and was president of Columbia college in 1763-75. Being an ardent loyalist, he was obliged to leave the colony, and returned to England. He was the author of Friendly Advice to All Reasonable Americans on Our Political Confusions; Poems on Several Occasions; Address to the Episcopalians of Virginia; and The American Querist. He died in 1785.

Cooper, Richard M

banker, congressman, was born in 1768 in Gloucester county, N. J. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1829 to 1833; served in the legislature; and was president of the state bank at Camden. He died March 10, 1844.

Cooper, Sam Bronson

lawyer, congressman, was born May 30, 1850, in Caldwell county, Ky. In 1876 he was elected county attorney of Tyler county; and was re-elected in 1878. In 1880 he was elected to the state senate; elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Cooper, Susan Fenimore

author, was born in 1813 in Scarsdale, N. Y. She was a writer, of rural sketches, whose life was passed at Cooperstown, N. Y., and was the author of Rural Hours; Country Rambles; Rhyme and Reason; Country Life; The Shield, a Narrative; and Mount Vernon and the Children of America. She died in 1894.

Cooper, Thomas

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Delaware from 1813 to 1817.

Cooper, Thomas B

physician, congressman, was born Dec. 29, 1823, in Cooperstown, Pa. He adopted the profession of a physician, and was elected a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, for the term ending in 1863. He died April 4, 1862, in Cooperstown, Pa.