Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Cooper was born about 1787, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Cooper, was 46 and her mother, Martha Burt, was 38. She lived in Franklin Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. She died in 1861, in Perry Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75.
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- Martha Cooper in household of Joel Cooper, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Martha Cooper - birth: about 1787; Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
- Martha Carper in household of Joel Carper, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (7)
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1787 · Second State to Ratify U.S. Constitution
On December 12, 1787, Pennsylvania ratified the U.S. Constitution.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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