COOPER
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V07,
Page 90
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
COOPER
UNION
the Oneonta & Mohawk Valley electric railway
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The village lies in the midst of a hop-growing and dairying region, and has cheese factories and creameries
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It has a public library, Thanks-giving hospital, a Y.M.C.A. See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
, and the Diocesan orphanage ( Protestant Episcopal)
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Cooperstown is a summer resort, Otsego Lake (9 M. long and with an average width of about 1 m.), the " Glimmerglass " of Cooper's novels, being one of the most picturesque of the New York lakes
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Cooperstown occupies the site of an old Indian town
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In 1785 the site became the property of Judge See also: - WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
Cooper, who in the following year founded there a village which took his name and was incorporated in 1807
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Judge Cooper himself settled here with his family in 1790
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His son, See also: - JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
Fenimore Cooper, who lived here for many years and is buried in the Episcopal cemetery here, made the region famous in his novels
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See J
.
Fenimore Cooper, The Chronicles of Cooperstown (Coopers-town, 1838)
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