See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- PETER COOPER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
COOPER (1791-1883)
, See also:American manufacturer, inventor and philanthropist, was See also:born in New See also:York See also:city on the 12th of See also:February 1791
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His grandfathers and his See also:father served in the See also:War of American See also:Independence
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He received practically no schooling, but worked with his father at See also:hat-making in New York city, at See also:brewing in See also:Peekskill, at See also:brick-making in See also:Catskill, and again at brewing in See also:Newburgh
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At seventeen he was apprenticed to a See also:coach-builder in New York city
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On coming of See also:age he got employment at Hempstead, See also:Long See also:Island, makingmachines for shearing See also:cloth; three years afterwards he set up in this business for himself, having bought the See also:sole right to manufacture such machinery in the See also:state of New York
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Business prospered during the War of 1812, but See also:fell off after the See also:peace
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He turned his See also:shop into a See also:furniture factory; soon sold this and for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time was. engaged in the grocery business on the site of the See also:present See also:Bible See also:House, opposite See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper See also:Union; and then invested in a See also:glue and See also:isinglass factory, situated for twenty-one years in Manhattan (where the See also:Park See also:Avenue Hotel was built later) and then in See also:Brooklyn
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About 1828 he built the See also:Canton See also:Iron See also:Works in See also:Baltimore, See also:Maryland, the See also:foundation of his See also:great See also:fortune
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The Baltimore & See also:Ohio railway was to See also:cross his See also:property, and, after various inventions aiming to do away with the loco-See also:motive See also:crank and thus See also:save two-fifths of the See also:steam, in 1830 he designed and constructed (largely after plans made two years before) the first steam See also:locomotive built in See also:America; though only a small See also:model it proved the practicability of using steam See also:power for working that See also:line
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The "Tom Thumb," as Cooper called the locomotive, was about the See also:size of a See also:modern See also:hand-See also:car; as the natural draft was far from sufficient, Cooper devised a blowing apparatus
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Selling his Baltimore works, he built, in 1836, in See also:partnership with his See also:brother See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, a See also:rolling See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill in New York; in 1845 he removed it to Trenton, New See also:Jersey, where iron structural beams were first made in 1854 and the See also:Bessemer See also:process first tried in America in 1856; and at See also:Philippsburg, New Jersey, he built the largest blast See also:furnace in the See also:country at that time
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He built other foundries at See also:Ringwood, New Jersey, and at See also:Durham, See also:Pennsylvania; bought iron mines in See also:northern New Jersey, and carried the ore thence by See also:railways to his See also:mills
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Actively interested with See also:Cyrus See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field in the laying of the first See also:Atlantic See also:cable, he was See also:president of the New York, Newfound-See also:land & See also:London See also:Telegraph See also:Company, and his frequent See also:cash advances made the success of the company possible; he was president of the See also:North American Telegraph Company also, which controlled more than one-See also:half of the telegraph lines of the See also:United States
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For his See also:work in advancing the iron See also:trade he received the Bessemer See also:gold See also:medal from the Iron and See also:Steel See also:Institute of Great See also:Britain in 1879
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He took a prominent See also:part in educational affairs, strongly opposed the See also:Roman See also:Catholic claims for public funds for parochial See also:schools, and conducted the See also:campaign of the See also:Free School Society to its successful issue in 1842, when a state See also:law was passed forbidding the support from public funds of any "religious sectarian See also:doctrine." He is probably best known, however, as the founder of the Cooper Union (q.v.)
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Cooper was an See also:early See also:advocate of the emancipation and the enlistment in the Union See also:army of See also:Southern negroes, and he upheld the See also:administration of See also:Lincoln
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Though he had been a hard-See also:money Democrat, he joined the Greenback party after the See also:Civil War, and in 1876 was its See also:candidate for the See also:presidency, but received only 81,740 out of the 8,412,833 votes See also:cast
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He died in New York city on the 4th of See also:April 1883
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He published The See also:Political and See also:Financial Opinions of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Cooper, with an Auto-See also:biography of his Early See also:Life (1877), and Ideas for a See also:Science of See also:Good See also:Government, in Addresses, Letters and Articles on a Strictly See also:National Currency, See also:Tariff and Civil Service (1883)
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There is a brief biography by R
.
W
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See also:Raymond, Peter Cooper (See also:Boston, 1900)
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