Brief Life History of Jacob Gilbert
When Jacob Gilbert Cooper Jr. was born on 6 November 1830, in United States, his father, Jacob Gilbert Cooper Sr., was 53 and his mother, Ann Johnson, was 44. He married Emeline Leedom on 6 December 1855, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Northampton Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 31 January 1902, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Jacob G Cooper, "United States Census, 1860"
- J. Gilbert Cooper, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915"
- Gilbert Cooper in household of Jacob Cooper, "United States Census, 1850"
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1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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