Brief Life History of Freedom Prentice or Prentiss
When Freedom Prentice or Prentiss Cooper was born on 14 June 1847, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his father, Freedom Bennet Cooper, was 26 and his mother, Margaret Paige, was 17. He married Margaret Rebbeca Ramsey on 8 January 1874, in Boone, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Marcy, Boone, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Dallas Center, Dallas, Iowa, United States in 1925. He died on 11 October 1929, in Boone, Iowa, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Ogden, Boone, Iowa, United States.
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- Freedom Pranties Cooper, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1856-1940
- Freedom P. Cooper, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
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1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Greene, Iowa, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869
Historical Boundaries: 1869: Dallas, Iowa, United States
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle English couper, cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch kūper, a derivative of kūp ‘tub, container’, which was borrowed independently into English as coop). The prevalence of the surname, its cognates, and equivalents bears witness to the fact that this was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages throughout Europe. In North America, the English surname has absorbed some cases of like-sounding cognates from other languages, for example Dutch Kuiper .
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kupfer and Kupper (see Kuper ).
Dutch: occupational name for a buyer or merchant, Middle Dutch coper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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