Cooper, Samuel
soldier, author, was born June 12, 1798, in New Jersey. He was appointed adjutant and inspector-general of the confederate army, of which he was the ranking officer, standing first on the list of generals. He was the author of A Concise System of Instructions and Regulations for the Militia and Volunteers of the United States. He died Dec. 3, 1876, in Cameron, Va.
COOPER, MRS. SARAH BROWN IN- GERSOLL, philanthropist, author, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1836, in Cazenovia, N. Y.
She graduated in 1853 from the Cazenovia seminary and subsequently attended the Troy Female seminary. During the civil war Mrs.
Cooper was elected president of the Society for the Aid of Refugees; and taught a Bible class of three hundred soldiers. In 1869 she moved to San Francisco, and there won a national reputation in religious and educational work. While the credit of establishing the first free kindergarten in San Francisco is due to Prof. Felix Adler, yet the credit of the extraordinary success of the work is almost entirely due to Mrs.
Cooper. Nearly half a million dollars was given to her to carry on kindergarten work in San Francisco, and thousands of little children have been trained in these schools. She was the founder and president of the Golden Gate Kindergarten association; and has written many works of vital importance on the subject of kindergartens. She died in 1896.