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of Delaware in 1840-44. He died April 27, 1849, in Delaware. Cooper, William C, congressman, was born Dec. 18, 1833, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney for Mount Vernon in 1859-63; was mayor of Mount Vernon in 1863-64; was a representative in the state legislature in 1872-74; and was judge-advocate-general of Ohio in 1879-84. In 1881 he became a member of the board of education of the city of Mount Vernon; and in 1882 was elected president of the board. In 1885-91 he was a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican. Hfe died in 1902 in Mt. Vernon, Ohio.

Cooper, William Finemore, lawyer, jurist. 4, 1860, in Petersburg, Va. He received the degrees of LL.B. and LL.M. from Columbia university law school of Washington, D.O. He was a page in the United States^ house of representatives and later to the supreme court of the United States; and in 1876-77 to the electorial commission appointed to decide the Hayes-Tilden presidential controversy. He engaged in the practice of law in Chicago, 111. ; and since 1892 has been master in chancery of the circuit court of Cook county. Cooperrider, George T., clergyman, author, was bom March 30, 1852, in Licking county, Ohio. In 1877-1901 he was in active pastorate of the Lutheran church. Since 1903 he has been editor-in-chief of the Lutheran Standard of Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of The True; The Means of Grace; and The Land of God. Coote, Richard, colonial governor, was born in 1636 in Ireland. He became governor of the provinces of New York and New Jersey

Was born Aug.



Cooter,

James Thomas, clergyman, educawas bom Dec. 2, 1858,

tor, college president,

in Monticello,

Mo. He attended the Monticelseminary; graduated in 1884 from the

lo

Wabash

college;

and

theology for two full years at the Princeton seminary of New Jersey, and one year at McOormicks' seminary of Chicago. In 1877-90 he filled a pastorate in the presbyterian church at Baxter Springs, Kan.; and since 1903 he has studied

been president of Washington college of Tennessee. He is a member of various educational associations; and a contributor to educational literature. Cope, Caleb, merchant, financier, was bom July 18, 1797, in Greensburg, Pa. In 1864-88 he was president of the Philadelphia savings

12, 1888, in Phil-

adelphia, Pa.

Cope, Edward Drinker, naturalist, author, was born July 38, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa.

He became

palseontologist to the United States geological survey, and his work in this connection resulted in his discovery of nearly a thousand new species of extinct and as many recent vertebrata. He was the author of Origin of Genera; Extinct Batrachia and Eeptilia of North America; Pri-.

mary Groups

of Batrachia Anura; SystemRelations of the Fishes; Vertebrate Palaeontology of New Mexico; Tertiary Vertebrata of the West; and The Origin of the Fittest. He died April 13, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pa. atic

Cope,

bom

Gilbert,

Aug.

genealogist,

author,

was

East Bradford, Pa. He is the author of Record of the Cope Family; The Browns of Nottingham; Genealogy of the Button Family; Geneaology of the Sharpless Family; The Dunwoody and Hood Families; The Smedley Genealogy; and History of Chester County, Pa. 17, 1840, in

Cope, Henry Frederick, clergyman, author, was born June 17, 1870, in England. He

theology in the Southern

baptist theological seminary of Louisville, Ky. In

studied

1893 he was ordained the ministry; and has filled pastorates in Rochester, N.Y., Piato

no, lon,

he

and in DilMont. Since 1907 has been general 111.,

secretary of the religious educational so-

in 1698; and a year later wentto Boston and succeeded to the governorship of Massachusetts. He died March 5, 1701, in New

York.

May

fund society. He died

ciety. He is the author of The Bonanza Bible Class Hymns and other works.

You Ought to Know; Cope, Thomas Pim, 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 1831 the first line of packets between Philadelphia and Liverpool. He was a

member

Philadelphia city council served in the legislature in 1807; and in the state constitutional convention. He was president of the board ot trade for many years; and of the Mercantile library company from its foundation until his death. He died Nov. 32, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa.

about

of

tlie

1800;

Cope, W. W., lawyer, jurist. In 1863-64 he was chief justice of the supreme court of California.

Copeland, Alfred Bryant, painter, was born about 1840 in Boston, Mass. He exhibited church interiors in the Paris salon in 1877-78; and sent to Boston a collection of street scenes in Paris.