Show DEATH OF PETER coolen NEW aprils polar cooper died ot at 1 morning aged qi years ho had acon ailing sometime with a slight cold ami last sunday was to remain in bed tho family physician az summoned and bt discovered atio patient suffering arom a overo s attack mr coopers advanced years were n great drawback to his recovery about two oc loc in alio morning ho called ills son ox mayor cooper and mra S his daughter and her family to his bedside inking to them alist he knew lie lind not long to live and alicy must reconciled to tho fact ills death occurred exactly nt three a in remained coit clou in alnio 0 riia aind dudu 3 Tn gard to timily nir alra among alic many who called tn express fonow or mr s death were samuel J Tilde ii S sullivan general alexanders webb andice II 11 grecu inforno alion or mr coopers demoso spread tho city ot and lass were displayed at hall mast on carr alie city hall alic ant and oilier public and private build ines forti oliree members of iho pennsylvania ot alio 0 alio coyal legion of tho united states under command 0 maor genar 1 l visited alio llio cw york nt acl lat night befaro tho dratted resolutions ot regret for tho death of peter cooper peter cooper was bom in alio city ot new york february 13 1701 when its population was only ills lather was a lieutenant in alic continental anny and after alio war located in new york city where lio engaged in 0 hul he naturally enough learned alio trado of his father and pursued it v etli him alic latter sold out ills lousiness liu siness ami removing to new burgh N Y a brewery and youir caoper engaged liero with iiii lather in abu ot ales etc in ills year lie entered ats nn ap prentice to the coachi business letio ho until lie was 0 age and had learned alio business atter arriving at age and working in long island at alio in ot a machine fur shearing clatl lio saved enough money out of ids wages to buy the right 0 alio state ol 01 new yoi k for alic machine and commenced its manufacture he subsequently engaged in tho grocery business afterward lie began alic manufacture of aluc d aej isinglass business ho subsequently removed to brooklyn alie lias been contin ucil alio time Is now lit successful operation in 1823 ho acres 0 land alio now of baltimore miry lidid and on a of this property erected alie tontoni ironworks hero lie built alio first locomotive ever constructed in he alio tickton iron borka where alio lant iron cams now co inucci used in fireproof fire proof keiu rolled ho was oc of aliu carlic st ami most active promoters of lie about 1850 lie to a portion of ills fortuno to public ns Fortl iii bui po sc lie erected alie laro building in new boik known as the cooper union rails will bo ills enduring monument and has and will continuo to to a blessing to thousands ot bogli sexes it Is d for tho alk cs in a conversation a short oliue aso mr codier eliat 1110 expressions of prad tudo lc was so often vini from those who had learned some trade or been enabled alie education received at alio union to famil acs ics view anoro Kra 1 i to liviu alinn all ills clr cimper in politics was 0 late year i a he was alio nominee 0 alint pirty for alo ri i in ISTO ice clvin votes lie was eminently practical and ful in all 0 life allu lied to sec alie rall of hs phillan pl illan and ills memory will ion bo by thousands alio giue by lili boble |