Brief Life History of John Henry
When John Henry Cooper I was born on 20 October 1898, in Bath, Mason, Illinois, United States, his father, William Thomas Cooper, was 36 and his mother, Minnie Myrtle Mathews, was 25. He married Mabel Marie Gregory on 9 April 1917. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Kerton Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 31 December 1978, in Lewistown, Fulton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Havana, Mason, Illinois, United States.
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- John Cooper, "United States 1950 Census"
- John Cooper, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- John Henry Cooper, "Illinois, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1910 · Boy Scouts of America
When W. D. Boyce was visiting London, he encountered a boy that helped him find his destination. The boy refused the tip that Boyce offered to him and told him that he was just doing his daily good turn. Being inspired, Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America to help teach young men how to have an attitude of service always. Since its foundation, The Boy Scouts of America has become one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States. Around 110 million people have been participants at some time in their life. The BSA was established to help young people make better choices in life and showing selflessness by serving the community.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
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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