Cope, Thomas Pym
merchant, was born Aug. 26, 1768, in Lancaster county, Pa. He began, business for himself in 1790, importing his goods latterly in his own vessels, the first of which he built in 1807, and established in 1821 the first line of packets between Philadelphia and Liverpool. He was a member of the Philadelphia city council about 1800, an efficient member of the committee for introducing water into the city, served in the legislature in 1807, and in the state constitutional convention, was president of the board of trade for many years, and of the Mercantile library company from its foundation until his death. He died Nov. 22, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa.
COPELAND, ALFRED BRYANT, painter, was born about 1840 in Boston, Mass. He became art professor in the University of St. Louis, but about 1877 opened a studio in Paris, where he worked in crayon and oils. He exhibited church interiors in the Paris salon in 1877-78, and sent to Boston a collection of street scenes in Paris.