Cooper, Richard M – Copeland, Joseph T
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, 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.
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
scientist, author, was born Oct. 22, 1759, in London, England. He was a noted scientist who came to America in 1795 with Dr. Priestly, and was president of the college of South Carolina, 1820-34. He was the author of Letters on the Slave Trade; Tracts Ethical, Theological, and Political; Information Concerning America; The Bankrupt Law of America compared with that of England; Tracts on Medical Jurisprudence; Elements of Political Economy; and An English Version of the Institutes of Justinian. He died May 11, 1840, in Columbia, S. C.
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.
Cooper, W. R
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1839 to 1841.
Cooper, William
congressman, was born in New Jersey. He removed to Otsego county, New York, and became the founder of Cooperstown. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1795 to 1797, and again from 1799 to 1801. He was the father of the eminent author, James Fenimore Cooper.
Cooper, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1694 in Boston, Mass. He was a famous congregational minister of Boston, and the author of Tract Defending Inoculation for the Small Pox; and The Doctrine of Predestination unto Life. He died Dec. 13, 1743, in Boston, Mass.
Cooper, William
patriot, was born in 1720 in Boston, Mass. He was distinguished for his patriotic services during the revolutionary war, and for fortynine years was town clerk of Boston. He died Nov. 28, 1809.
Cooper, William B
governor, was born in Delaware. He was governor of the state from 1840 to 1844. He died April 27, 1849.
Cooper, William C
was born Dec. 18, 1832, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney for Mount Vernon from 1859 to 1863; was mayor of Mount Vernon from 1862 to 1864; was a representative in the state legislature from 1872 to 1874; and was judge-advocategeneral of Ohio from 1879 to 1884. In 1881 he became a member of the board of education of the city of Mount Vernon.
In 1882 he was elected president of the board. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Cooper, William R
lawyer, was born Feb. 13, 1847, in Campbell county, Tenn. He is a noted lawyer of Knoxville, Tenn., and a charter member of the Peace commandery and other orders. He has been supreme keeper of records of United Order of the Golden Cross since 1879; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Coote, Richard
colonial governor, was born in 1636 in Ireland. He became governor of the provinces of New York and New Jersey in 1698, and a year later went to Boston and succeeded to the governorship of Massachusetts. He died March 5, 1701, in New York.
Cooter, James Thomas
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Dec. 2, 1858, in Monticello, Mo. He attended the Monticello seminary; graduated in 1884 from the Wabash college; and studied theology for two years at the Princeton college, New Jersey, and one year at the McCormick's seminary of Chicago.
He filled a pastorate in the Presbyterian church at Baxter Springs, Kan., during 1887-90, and since 1891 has been president of Washington college, Tennessee.
Cooter, John Patten
farmer, educator, was born March 12, 1838, in Green county, Tenn. He has attained prominence in educational work; has written extensively for the periodical press, and many of his poems have been given a place in standard works.
Cope, Caleb Frederick
merchant, financier, was born July 18, 1797, in Greensburg, Pa. In 1864 he became president of The Philadelphia Savings.
Fund Society, of which he had been a director since 1841, and gave to this institution the last twenty-four years of his life. He died May 12, 1888, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Cope, Edward Drinker
naturalist, author, was born July 28, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a noted Philadelphia naturalist, and the author of Origin of Genera; Extinct Batrachia and Reptilia of North America; Primary Groups of Batrachia Anura; Systematic Relations of the Fishes; Vertebrate Palæontology of New Mexico; Tertiary Vertebrata of the West; and The Origin of the Fittest. He died in 1897.
Cope, Gilbert
genealogist, author, was born in 1840 in Pennsylvania. He is a genealogist of Pennsylvania, and the author of Record of the Cope Family; The Browns of Nottingham; Genealogy of the Dutton Family; Genealogy of the Sharpless Family; and History of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
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.
Copeland, George D
business man, lawyer, poet, was born in Waddington, N. Y. For ten years he practiced law in Goshen, Ind.; and for two years edited The Times of that city. In 1873 he moved to San Diego, Cal.; was its postmaster in 1881-86; and was instrumental in securing for that city its bountiful supply of pure mountain water, which is brought from the mountains fifty miles away. He is the president of the electric railway and lighting firm of that city.
Copeland, Joseph
business man, banker, was born in 1836, in Ulster, Ireland. For many years he was engaged in mining in California and Oregon, and finally secured controlling interest in several gold mines. He made over twenty trips to the Pacific coast; organized the First National bank of Shellsburg, Wis., of which he was president until his death in 1893.
Copeland, Joseph T
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born May 6, 1813, in New Castle, Maine. During 1846-49 he was judge of the St. Clair county court of Michigan; was elected circuit judge in 1851; and served during 1851-57 as a judge of the supreme court. He served with distinction through the civil war, and was promoted brigadier general of volunteers.