Show II II II II Corner in iii I j 1 H I COOPER FAMILY Name of Saxon Anglo Derivation Derivation- Seated in Great Britain for Cen tunes Landed Gentry Bearing 3 Arms BY DY I ILEANOR LEXINGTON Cowper is an in old sl spelling selling of Cooper I Both the no poet t and Earl Cowper Cowpe I 1 1405 sprang wrote from flom themselves the Sussex Cooper tam family 11 who ii ir r Is a word derived from I coop coo something to 10 keep or 01 hold tImIngs c whether wine In fn a cask 01 or a u. hen lien in her he r I prison A cooper then Is aile one who ho malc I coops COOl Coop Coon In turn Is derived from Iron n I the A Saxon Anglo n word I or keran I Variations of oC the surname Cooper Copper ar en Le LR Cowper and ancI Cu Cu- Cupat pat I us The plain and unassuming name P of John Cooper is la quite luite In well well In ap when when In Jo lib Its Italian masquerade rad I Giovanni Who ho would not prefer being J t to o Cooper Great The Coopers have hac been J n seated sealed ii in 1 Britain almost since the beginning bes of ot that nation Probably there never was wai a time lime when you OU couldn't la lay hand band a l Cooper Coope They 1101 flourish In tn Berkshire upon Gloucester Dorset Wiltshire Surra Surrey and Oxford Of the landed gentry of Suffolk Suf Suf- folk the time principal family seat is Wort Wort- l lIngton House Of Ot tho the Oxford family one Thomas rhoma Cooper was a colonel In 20 Cromwell's arm array army Castle Ire Ie l Inn land and Is 18 another stronghold of or the time Coop ers en Apropos to this branch h of or the fam nm am- t ily hy It I b is just rec recently that the columns column of ot English newspapers hart ha chronicled the wedding o of a. a daughter ol oh- Major Francis Cooper R. 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A of or Math Marl I r reo ree Ca Call Castle tle tie to 10 o Mr i Fred Wynn nn 01 ol Coed y Coed Walek We e a a pilgrim In tn the person of Thomas Thomos Cooper in Boston 1 1117 He was only about fifteen years ears old oft and Is said to t o have tave conic come from fr-em tc rom Somerset or 01 Glou Glon c cester r. r and to have ha been born In London Three c years t rs later ho lie was wan a pa on board the Pink Blessing to New York Thomas was born with a a. roving dispo dispo- I for in 1693 1692 he lie b bought ht property on Ca Casco co bay buy Mayne paying leO luO pounds lou for I a mile of ot h land hand nl 2 Probably all this while Boston wa was his home for January 10 1 16 Mr r and Mr Mrs John Coleman cave the lend land for lor the Brattle street church of or which h he was vas one of the principal oriS i This Is 18 the called i by Iy y Ma Ma- Il thor ther the Manifesto church Thomas Cooper amt a n large land owner much of or hi his property rt being Ins acquired through hl his t. t r i L I W t l' l II marriage to Mehitable dau daughter of ot lameD and und Hannah Minot tho the latter r a niece oC ot Lieutenant Governor Stoughton htoo Thomas Ov owned tho the famous Green Dragon tavern mill arid the Blue B Ball fl estate His children numbered a round half ozen He Is called d captain and perhaps took part lit in time the wara wars of the tIme day He managed manag-cd the tile estate of a Mr l Daniel who had returned to England An Av interesting extract from the diary of ot Judge all Sewall dated December 4 IeH 1691 relates elates to Captain Thom Thomas and Is 15 as an fol Col- fol- fol lows Lieutenant Governor invites and we go 0 to Mr Ir Coopers Cooper's where a 1 splendid treat Is Js provided pro mostly cold meats Councillors clergymen and justIces jus- jus tIces there Mr Ir Increase Mather craved a i. blessing Mr lr Willard returned thanks One the Coopers came from Rolland Holland settling In New York and the descendants in New Jerse Jersey They rhey spelled the name Kupos and Kuyper but soon i changed chanced to Cooper The author Stones James Fenimore Cooper Cooperr Coop Coop- I er err descended from James Cooper of ot Stratford on who came come to America America Am Am- erica In 1670 and made a n. home homo In Pennsylvania and afterwards In New Jersey Tile Tl Coopers of P Pennsylvania and Maryland number many writers and statesmen and tho the same may b be said of ot tho family of or Georgia also many distinguished clergymen Tho The I rs tako take to tho the ministry n naturally and md some somo at least east one showed a h pretty wit nit at writing epitaphs M Myles Cooper clergyman 0 ot or England wrote for his wn tombstone Here lies a n priest of English blood Who living JivIng was was' goo good Good company good wine good name Yet Zet never hunted after fame tame Another Rev Cooper bec became me professor and afterwards president of oC Columbia college Now York Ho He came t to America In 1762 aged aced twenty vp 1 I but returned to England at tiie time the b be be- be Inning of oC the tho revolution re In London count county Virginia lived Apollos pollos Cooper who was Vas a lieutenant in the continental army and anti killed at nt BrandywIne He had hael three children md Ind they wore we founders of ot the time Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- branch of the family Among connections were yere the Pattersons Patter Palter sons and of Virginia and South I- I Carolina Officers of or the thc revolution included Ensign Samuel Lieutenant nant John on and Captain Leonard rd of ot Virginia Ensign Lieutenant John and nd Ca Captains t and James of Massachusetts Lieutenant Samuel of r Connecticut Lieutenant Ezekiel Ezekel of New York and Ensign n William of ot Pennsylvania William Cooper born 1720 and amid call call- ed id the patriot w was s for Cor nine forty-nine years town clerk of ot Boston His brother Samuel Samue from the time the time stamp act rote the tIme principal and the host best po- po articles which 1 treat treated d of or the subject The They appeared In the Boston lazette The first a railway lo lo- lo e the Tom Torn Thumb was ns the york vork of Peter Cooper born 1 1731 In Philadelphia The Time locomotive c con cn con con- n from his own designs In 1830 ran thirteen miles In seven fifty rain min utes ute on its trial trip Characteristics of the Coopers are arc spirit modesty modesti affability Inu roo find and I I I I v. v man uan THomas Cooper Cooper- Tb Thomas imas seems ever a 3 favorite name a name a 1 physician l. l pol politician ph philosopher and jurist born In London came to Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania 1 1732 12 2 Ho was characterized b by President A Adams ams as us a 3 1 learned In In- In genious enious scientific and talent talented d mad mael- Of cap cw many of C Cooper oper lineage It may truthfully be said suld that the they p have been true r o to the present tho the man n-ho n ho wins wine tho the ground Immediately be be- be tore fore him makes life lire a triumph Put out of ot your our thought the past what whatever what what- ever It may be let go bO even tIme the future with Its high Ideal and concentrate nc voul soul In this burning present mo tao- taom t m ment en Th The coat or coat of Illustrated Is bin bla zoned argent a 0 chevron ermine co- co gules between three throe leaves heaves vert Crest Creat u n cubit arm erect proper holding up a 11 chaplet vert vort No motto s 's given with thin coat armor but Coopers Cooper have and one is Nil Magnum num Nisi B Another noth r Is E Est Eat t. t One Onto coat coat of granted In 1584 and borne by b tHe Winchester Coopers Is Azure a t SS between three pelicans argent themselves them them- themselves selves gul gules ules s Among Amoni charges of ot the tho v various Ious Cooper Coop Coop- er arms rm are tov dove bulls buUs and hound houn f The Cooper c can n t gray Bray both hoth and supporters 4 e i ij I |